A road sign in Death Valley warning of extreme heat Getty Images/iStockphoto
Death Valley in California is among the hottest places on Earth. In the midst of a heatwave baking large parts of the US South and Southwest it may have just set a new record for the hottest midnight ever.
Between 12am and 1am on 17 July, the Badwater basin weather station maintained in Death Valley by the US National Weather Service recorded temperatures of 48.9°C (120°F).
Jeff Masters, a meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections, says he doesn’t doubt that this was the hottest midnight…
