{"id":10892,"date":"2020-08-18T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10892"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:40:06","slug":"dv-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/18\/dv-130\/","title":{"rendered":"DV 130"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/scorching-temperature-uss-death-valley-135311620.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from AFP via Yahoo! News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scorching temperature in US&#8217;s Death Valley could be global high<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Issam AHMED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/woCBO2hzSSwT6HRP2FCSMQ--~B\/aD01MTE7dz03Njg7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/afp.com\/ce59f9b8a9254fdef5250e5bbf5b7a56\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) recorded in California&#8217;s Death Valley on Sunday by the US National Weather Service could be the hottest ever measured with modern instruments, officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reading was registered at 3:41 pm at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in the Death Valley national park by an automated observation system &#8212; an electronic thermometer encased inside a box in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1913, a weather station half an hour&#8217;s walk away recorded what officially remains the world record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But its validity has been disputed for a number of reasons: regional weather stations at the time didn&#8217;t report an exceptional heatwave, and there were questions around the researcher&#8217;s competence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/scorching-temperature-uss-death-valley-135311620.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Yahoo! News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AFP via Yahoo! News Scorching temperature in US&#8217;s Death Valley could be global high by Issam AHMED A temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) recorded in California&#8217;s Death Valley on Sunday by the US National Weather Service could be the hottest ever measured with modern instruments, officials say. The reading was registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}