Not exact matches
Yesterday, our friend Tita tried to make us feel cooler by telling us the story of how she and her husband drove across Death Valley in the middle of an
afternoon when the
temperature gauge
read 134 °.
Even unusually cold
temperatures couldn't dissuade a group of more than 65 Crenshaw High School parents, faculty, staff and students who showed up to rally in front of the school Monday
afternoon, many hoisting signs that
read «Resources not Reconstitution.»
This
afternoon, I left my 2012 VW Beetle 2.0 T idle for a few minutes at a gas station, and it showed a hot coolant
temperature warning; the sensor was
reading 195F.
The promenade is best visited at the end of
afternoon when the
temperatures cool down a bit as it
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Many local factors influence the observed
temperature: whether a station is in a valley with cold air drainage, whether the station is a liquid - in - glass thermometer in a standard wooden shelter or an electronic thermometer in the new smaller and more open plastic shelters, whether the station
reads and resets its maximum and minimum thermometers in the coolest time of the day in early morning or in the warmest time of the day in the
afternoon, etc..
But a station too close to a large tree to the west, so that the station was shaded in the
afternoon, would be expected to make the
afternoon maximum
temperature read a bit cooler than a station in full sunlight.
Naturally, a better understanding of how ambient air
temperature behaves in and around Furnace Creek on typical, hot summer
afternoons should aid in understanding why and how the 134F
reading came to be, and why it can not be valid.
Temperatures there yesterday
afternoon read 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Temperatures aren't unbearable yet so I can enjoy morning or
afternoon runs, time spent on my balcony sofa
reading and reflecting and the sounds of summer coming into bloom — water splashing, children laughing and the smell of grilling.