About the record temperature in Las Vegas yesterday…it wasn’t 117°F There’s lots of hullabaloo over the supposedly tied all time temperature record of 117°F in Las Vegas, and the potential for a new all-time temperature record in Death valley, which would negate the all time world record of 134°F in 1934, since the previous world record in Libya of 136.4°F (58°C) was recently said to be unreliable. More on Death Valley in the next post, but for now let’s look at Las Vegas. I don’t know where NBC news got 117°F where they say: The high temperature officially hit 117 degrees at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport — equaling the airport’s record Even Drudge reported this. Did NBC make this up? It wouldn’t be the first time they made up a news report to make it more spectacular. The official report from NWS Las Vegas says 115°F:
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:20:22 +0000
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