Tourists head to Death Valley to feel the record heat
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- A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley. People from all across the world visited the National Park to experience the heat for themselves. (AP Video shot by Ty ONeil) Read more here: apne.ws/Zf28zkx
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There really are people who are that foolish. The abandoned bus in Alaska that was famed for where John McCandless died attracted so many idiots going there and dying themselves that in 2020 they had to remove the bus with a helicopter.
Heatstroke speedrun any percent.
the fact that you try and compare the 2 shows your lack of intelligence
Yeah a biker died there yesterday. And it was too hot to fly a helicopter in there to save him.
He passed alright
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Disagree about the helicopter.
@@johnbutler1279 well that's what the news report said.
WELL.... They'd better be prepared. 130F is a temperature that makes Beef Jerky...
I think that's temperature that makes bacteria form. If you ate jerky made at 130F you're most likely going to get sick.
People jerky.
It makes my ball stink
My dad worked in Kuwait for 15 years in 130° weather on a daily basis . These people will be JUST fine . It's normal elsewhere and people live in these conditions everyday .
Oh yeah? Well my dad owns Kuwait and he's been working in a volcano where it's over 500f every day for the past 80 years @@lizacrochets98
Scary to drive to nowheresville to be in that heat because if something goes wrong with the car, you can die.
Yes, air conditioner fanbelts tend to expand and break in that temperature.
@@joecausey8508but people still go there anyways.
Perhaps that's the reason they go, a difficult life so they wish for nature to reclaim them.
It's not. Because most air conditioning units are built to last in both your car AND in most high-tech, modern buildings such as tourist centres in North America. Don't be an idiotic hypochondriac.
Happened to a friend of mine. He had to pay $750 to get his car towed outta there (salt flats). Was probably well worth it too.
I was at Palm Springs in the summer and it was 115 degrees a German tourist wanted to know how to get to Death Valley, I asked him WHY he wanted to go there, he said to experience the heat.
That's what his neanderthal white father said when they came out of the caves. The heat and sunlight. Then he clothed himself and slowly became a greek. Whites learned all from the ethiopian because he had been in caves. Herodotus the Greek historian told these facts in 450BC.
😂😂
@@NYUArchaeologycue the “WHITE PEOPLE ALWAYS WAR AND HOLD US BACK” argument to fly out
Rip grammer 🤢
@@NYUArchaeology lol Then why haven't they found any wheeled carts in Africa... You think such advanced people would have a wheel.
Uh, there's a reason why they call it Death Valley and also a reason why that visitor center is called Furnace Creek... 🥵🥵
And there's a reason the landscape is totally barren behind the interviewee humorously saying she can't imagine how anything could live in that heat.
It's just a name! All the features have names like that in the Plateau of No Return!
Death valley is in a rain shadow, and is a dry lake basin . The mountains west of it is some of the wettest in California@@DemPilafian
And yet Death Valley is NOT the hottest or dryest place on Earth. The actual hottest recorded place on Earth was in Italian Libya during the Mussolini period, and the dryest recorded place on Earth is still Antarctica.
And Badwater.....
Can anyone imagine attempting to change a flat tire on your car in that heat . ??????
I can imagine AAA doing it for me 🤣
@@Phlegm187they will with a 6 hr wait
We were at 115 degrees in Phoenix today, so yes.
What emoji even is that 😂😂😂
Car 🚗🚘 theft protection, at its finest.
Fascinating that only one person dressed in white clothing.
I noticed that lady wearing the white clothing too.
I work outside in the heat and I always choose the lighter-colored uniforms that my work provides.
WHITE IS THE COLOR OF THE FALSE PROPHET YESHUA
in the salt mines she had to wear a dead woman's sunhat to prevent skin cancer. now she has become entranced with the brutal logic of the landscape.
The rest of us stayed home and planned our trip for February.
Should have scrolled down first. Ms. "... can really feel the heat on your skin." who has dark complexion anyway, jet-black hair and a tight, black shirt without a hat. She'd probably wonder why she fries at 78 back home. Dunces.
My family and I visited two years ago in late June. It was 130 degrees at death valley. It felt like stepping out into a furnace. Dried both your skin and hair out in minutes. I'm glad I got to see death valley but once was enough.
It would be better if you went from the months of November-March. Those are the times of year in which it won’t be scorching.
Used to go yearly in February for family reunions. Much more bearable and fun then!
@@laurajones9956the whole point is they want to be in that heat for some reason
I don't need to go to Death Valley to experience the heat. I have enough of it here where I live.
February would be a much better time. It usually will be in the 70s that time of year.
It would be cheaper to go to the laundry mat with a dumb friend, crawl into a large-capacity dryer, and put it on the high setting. You could take turns putting quarters in until someone cries, Uncle.
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It's dumb to expose yourself to those temperatures.
Why? Many people preach about the health benefits of the sauna.
@@JohnDoe-fv7ueMany people preach about the benefits of ice baths too. It doesn't mean you go splashing around in the Arctic ocean!!!
@@Jeff-jw1rl Saunas are much hotter. The sauna I go to is 180 degrees Fahrenheit, but of course I am completely drenched in sweat within 15 minutes
There's many people that live in those type of temperatures, the Tuaregs and the Beduoins
@@lawlkings One day you'll be fully cooked with a pricetag of 1.99 a pound at Lou Lynn's take out!! 😤
Lol ✌️
It's stuff like this that makes me marvel at how we've survived this long as a species.
By doing the exact opposite, a vast amount of knowledge on survival is not passed to many
Exploring the national parks is a great experience and isn't dangerous if you prepare. It's not for everyone, maybe you should stick to writing TH-cam comments.
By destroying the only planet that support us.
@@user-tr2mb4xs7i There's exploring a national park and then there's going somewhere with extremely high temperatures, far exceeding healthy limits, just to see what being really, really hot feels like.
@@Bluesit32 It's safe to visit if you prepare and bring water. Not a ton of walking either, most people drive to the main attractions like Furnace Creek and the salt basin.
Some motorcyclist died yesterday in DV from heat related illnesses. Here in Las Vegas today it was 120F at the airport, cooler at my house on the west side that is at least 500 feet higher in elevation 115 according to my thermometer. That is the sort of day, that I close the shutters and stay inside until after sunset. It is foolish to be outside if one does not have to be.
Hi neighbor! I agree with every word.
Literally getting cooked to Medium Rare.
Amor Fati, love your fate as the Greeks like to say. Romans with their “ love one another” have led us to the 6th mass extinction . In the end only love prevails.
Best comment !😂
You'd have to be a special kind of pre-cooked to willingly walk into an open furnace, let alone pay for it.
Those people need to be studied😂
Unfortunately a lot of these people probably don’t believe in the climate crisis or just don’t care so they think this is funny when the weathers d clearer gets insane
I live in Las Vegas.
Study 📖 me!
Darwin Award gathering at Death valley.
lol. Yup!
Like the guy who died on the 4th of July when he set off fireworks on top of his head.
@@DavidLS1 lol. Seriously. Wow. People are so dumb.
@@cato451 And don't forget the people who fall off cliffs while trying to take selfies. :)
The name of the place has its own warning. Lol
You can't even keep the car cool with ac on max when it's that hot out. Driving there would be miserable.
I remember a day in January 1982. We went to a wedding that day. That night it got down to -26 F. Wind chills in the -80 F area. On the drive home from the reception (out in the country) our truck heater was blowing cool air and the engine never reached its max operating temperature. The opposite end of miserable (and scary) driving.
@@dj1111s More people die in the cold than in the heat.
Nearly overheated a rented Toyota Camry there once. It’s no joke, I was seriously afraid for my safety for a few minutes.
People get dumber every day...
Another idea for a movie sequel to Dumb and Dumber.
Well yeah, trump is going to be president again in November...
Right up there with the guy who died on the 4th of July when he set off fireworks on top of his head and all the people who fall off cliffs trying to take selfies.
Remember the movie 'Idiocracy'?
I mean, I kind of get it, it’s just interesting to experience that kind of heat in the air. What dumb is going deep into the desert to experience it. Anything at all goes wrong and you just die. You could just go into a sauna back home and experience heat like that.
Yikes! Going there to experience that heat makes no sense.
Actually, I'm in Las vegas now on vacation and thinking about heading there this Tuesday to experience 127 degrees, but it is like 118 here so does it even matter?
Might as well start preparing your body for it when everywhere starts hitting those numbers.
@@Phlegm187 We've heard about global warming for decades, and where is it?
@@bigverybadtom Either you're too young to have lived long enough to see the difference between how it is now and how it was just 40-50 years ago or you are just willfully ignorant to the fact it's been happening. Where I live in the 80's and 90's the rivers used to freeze thick enough to drive cars on in the winter and we averaged about 3-4 feet of snow every winter. Now the rivers haven't even tried to freeze in the past 20 years and we get about 0-3 inches of snow each winter. If you live somewhere that's always been hot you might not have noticed much difference but places that didn't use to be warm all year round are getting warmer every year. Winter weather used to start in mid November here and last through early April. Now it doesn't really get cold until mid January and ends by the end of February.
Here in tucson , arizona it can get to 115
I was driving through Death Valley once when the heat was 129. I pulled over, got out of my car and it felt like I stepped into an oven. I got back in my car, drove off and never went back.
Don't visit in summer.
@@MrBKuv I drove through the Lake Havasu area when it was 113 and that was plenty hot enough, and I will avoid doing that again.
I was at Laughlin a year ago and it was 120 something degrees. I haven't been that sunburnt since I was like 8. Lol. Never again.
@@MangelBanselmo No wonder real estate is so cheap there.
@@timthompson8297 I’m never going to a place that has “death” as part of its name
So if your car's A/C breaks, I assume you just burn the car right there to cool off?
"Burn the car to cool off"...?
@@Ms._Carriage Even the fire is cooler
Burn to cool off? Lol
I need to dig into my photo archives when i worked at stovepipe wells (from March 99 through Dec 99) and it was 131 in the shade, and snowed that year. Did that get erased from history? Glad i keep at my photos and pictures from back then
I was born and raised in Vegas and still here . I'm 60. It was common to have 117-118° in the summers growing up. But for the media to tell it, we were Never that hot until now....
Why would they want to do that? That seems foolish and a great way to get dehydrated very quickly.
A lot of people from Northern Europe come every year to experience that.
You fry in Death Valley, but in the Deep South, Alabama, with the humidity you broil. I'm from Alabama and I'd rather have 130-degree dry heat than 100-degree damp heat where the sweat pours off of you and you struggle to breathe.
Try it before you commit to that point of view.
130F is so hot that it cooks the inside of your lungs. These people aren't being hyperbolic when they say it feels like the inside of an oven. And if you get some wind on top of that, it isn't a relief, it is like standing in a pizza/convection oven and makes you even hotter. There is a reason people have always lived in the muggiest jungles, but no one lives in Death Valley.
I live in Oklahoma and I drive through Alabama a lot. I agree with you there.
It gets up to 120 degrees in the desert where I live. I couldn't handle it when I went to the south and it was 100 degree and 80-90 percent humidity, shade wouldn't cool me down.
Yeah it's awful.... Don't get me wrong. I sure as he!! Don't want to spend anytime there.
You can fix ignorance but not stupidity
How do you fix ignorance?😀
natural selection
Those people should NOT be traveling in the CA desert at this time of year...totally dangerous and irresponsible😡.
Yeah the people and their politics are nut in california
you tell em
The world’s highest temperature was recorded in 1913 in Death Valley. 110 years of global warming and it’s still the record.
And it was significantly warmer than that 1000 years ago.
Wow I just read about a biker dying in death valley from the heat. Very dangerous and so many people don't know what they're getting into
it's heat calm down
The appropriate question was to ask that girl her top 3 favorite AC/DC songs.
I live in Vegas..120 today. Scrambled eggs & fried bacon on the Blackstone w/o turning on the gas. Done in 15 minutes.. perfect.
0:51 Her: “I can’t see how anything survives out here”
Me: does it look like anything is actually surviving out there.
Man’s crazy for wearing the robe in the thumbnail
Fur coat
That's why it called a thumbnail.He's not actually in the desert
@@Wildman-zh8lgwhy are thumbnails called thumbnails?
@@dominicdeluca6378 No clue
I’m so happy I’m alive and didn’t drive somewhere miserable just to die
I hope they got that last lady some help, she was clearly starting to display heatstroke delirium
Death Valley for a reason
The hottest place on Earth is Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California (USA), where a temperature of 56.7°C (134°F) was recorded on 10 July 1913. In summer months, Death Valley has an average daily high of 45°C (113°F).
well that depends, try the Middle east. Balad Iraq in june the dry bulb temp was 138F or Kandahar airfield in August off the ramps in the sandy field the temp was 143.6F as per the weather station. i recall getting hit by fire, flew from the PNW 55F and raining and landed in Kuwait this was late May. the temp was 117F. I dam near passed out.
Ask yourself, when did they start measuring the temperature of Death Valley in the summer?
It's hot but its a dry heat😂 we love that slogan in California 😂😂
True, and with even a hint of humidity, we all say, oh, it's so humid!
Furnace Creek lives up to its name. There is a Shoshone village right there. Traditionally, the Shoshones spent the summer SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Isnt that swell, folks?
These people are crazy.
I worked in Osaka Japan setting up a Circus show. We work up to heights of 40-60 feets . We had a laser thermometer and the temperature on any given day was 65 to 68 Celsius. All this while working in suspension in a harness. I hated it. Don’t understand why people travel just to experience that kind of heat…
Because heat rises -- in for example a circus tent! 🥵 Wow.
just keep laughing until its 135 on your doorstep.
It hasn't happened in the past and won't happen now. We thought the Bermuda Triangle was real too.
It was 113F here today (on the other side of the mountain from Death Valley). My AC broke down, and I am typing this from inside my -oven- house. What's 22 more degrees among friends?
Hottest it's been in Minneapolis so far this summer is 88. I'm from Dallas, it's a cake walk compared to that nonsense. And it was getting down to -8 this winter, which is apparently warm for them 😂
I know right. I have been 4 years, in the high desert and devil wind.
There is hot and then there's too hot.
Anything above 101° is too hot
Global warming is a natural phenomenon that would happen with or without people
I remember a report about the heat index in Iran being 165F. That was in 2005, I think.
I don’t know how the human flesh and organs can survive that temperature being outdoors.
That was referring to the land skin temperature. In other words, not the air temperature, but the heat of the ground. It was in the Lut Desert in Iraq, where the ground is covered by black rocks which absorb the heat. The air temperature there is very hot, but not as hot as Death Valley.
So glad to have Andrea Karunanayake’s honest/expert opinion at 00:40. We’d be lost without journalism like this.
These folks have a radically different idea of "going on vacation" and "enjoying nature" than I do.
Hey folks! Come on down to Death Valley: where a flat tire is a death sentence.
People being interviewed: “It’s hot…very hot”….
Me: “well no 💩… it didn’t take me driving hundreds of miles just to figure that out…
Last year from my knowledge 2 people died, one hiking and the other car broke down and he perished. I just hope the people visiting come very prepared
Proof that the power of social media can turn most anything into an event to attend.
I open the front door at 2pm and it’s hot. I don’t need to travel to find more heat.😎
Wrong. Death Valley record high was 134 F in July 1913.
as someone from az this is called life
The highest it's been in tucson , hundred and fifteen
CA deserts are forsure hotter than AZ deserts
Phoenix hardly ever passes 120 degrees
Palm Springs made it to 124 degrees and hovered at 120 degrees for a couple of days
Plus we don’t get monsoon rains to cool down
Its just that nobody lives in CA deserts so nobody really cares about CA desert temps
A lot of people don't have a sense of adventure in the comments and it shows
People die every year trying to experience this boiling hot area. An older man died last year and this year in 2024, a motorcyclist died and the rest of his click was treated at the scene. 130 plus degrees is inhabitable. RIP for those who died. My condolences 😮
As a resident living in Phoenix, this was 15 degrees hotter than it was that day. The heat is already blistering hot. I can’t imagine how hot that felt. Everyone says it’s a dry heat and acts gangsta, until your food starts to boil in your car
Ironically, Death Valley got its name from people dying from traveling through it during a harsh winter. Yes, winter sometimes come to the desert.
You should see the people getting off planes here in Las Vegas during winter. They come dressed for summer and fail to forget that Las Vegas is the high desert which is somewhat warming during the day and cold at night. The local malls sell a lot of winter jackets to tourists.
Love how people say but it’s a dry heat, so what it’s still 133’ !
That DOES make a difference. Try that on the humid east coast and people will drop like flies. Your body can dissipate heat faster in a dry heat.
I lived on a ranch 50 miles east of Death Valley in a small high desert valley and I love the open space and the views, on a average day year round are days would have a daily Temperature rage of 70 F degrees or more. Local know how to live in that hostel and ruff environment and know all of the rules,regulations, and protocols to live by. In that ruff micro climate if you want to survive you have to follow rules completely.' The weekend warriors would go to the Death Valley Areas and get extremely sick or die.
They did not and do not listen to the locals or take and of the locals ideas or suggestions!
How pathetic can one's life get that one takens pictures of standing in 133* degrees sign in the middle of the desert 🏜.
I experienced 130 degrees in Death Valley back in August of 1990. 4 soldiers died during the NTC exercise just prior to the invasion of Kuwait, including my tent mate due to heat. We had no AC, training continued. No problems for most of us. Just a sucky day. 96 at sunrise, 130 at peak, 117 at sunset. Iraq was nicer.
It is called Death Valley for a reason
I wouldn’t risk the chance of my car failing & leaving me stranded in that fire pit
I live 5-10 from the entrance to Death Valley. I already had a group of German tourists almost drop dead on my property because they were riding motorcycles and didn’t have any water. Don’t come here unless you’re prepared.
We are dumb and insane
Purposely going there is absurd. Making a trip outta it to go get charbroiled is crazy! 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤘🏻😈🤘🏻
I think once you get past 100 degrees-it doesnt matter any more..its just unbearable.
What a bad idea.
After that, they can swing by Yellowstone to pet the fluffy cows. And maybe a refreshing dip in the hot springs. Nobody ever said evolution was supposed to be pretty.
There are European tourists that think that. Oh will go visit Death Valley, then hop over to Yellowstone and while they're there, they can visit the Statue of Liberty.
They can't comprehend just how vast the US is. Death Valley is bigger than some European countries.
Anyone remember the German family that got stuck and tried to hike out. Their remains weren't discovered until 13 years later.
I love when people say it’s a dry heat… 130 degrees is still 130 degrees.
I can't believe people are going to Death Valley just to experience the extreme heat there.. Just hope everyone stays safe and hydrated!!
Extreme heat decreases intelligence. FACT.
Nothing lives in Death Valley, hence it's name.
For a second I thought that was Jack Nicholson in the thumbnail.
Just come to Dubai, u feel it every day with a ton of humidity included
I left Phoenix after growing up there and would very much like to never experience temperatures that hot ever again! Definitely only going to Death Valley in winter for me
Some serious intelligence on display here.
People saying it's dumb to visit a site like death valley baffles me. Those folks are just getting an idea of what the future feels like.
Honestly it doesn't strike me as being a "bad" experience. It's hot enough I wouldn't want to deal with it everyday. But having been to Phoenix in 110+ and enjoying myself I don't think 130 would be unmanageable.
In school they told us the body will start boiling at 130 degrees lol they lied to us.
What school was that?
They failed you
@@thankyou9085 it’s not that deep lol it’s not like I’m missing out on staying away from 130 degree scorching heat 😂
The lady at the end pure gold 🪙
Death Valley is incredibly beautiful in January ... 55 or 60 degrees and the brightest, clearest sunshine you can imagine. In July? No thank you.
More people die from extreme cold than do from extreme heat.
Lol everyone else: "It's hot."
Pennsylvania lady: "I have gone back in time. I am detached from reality."
I felt 128 once. Once is enough
I went to the kitchen and put the stove on low… saved a bunch of time and money feeling the heat
Fun fact: The UK had a heatwave last month, with temperatures soaring to an insane 26°C. 💀
I love everyone’s reaction: “It is hot.”
I mean, yeah, what did you expect?
Antarctica hits record low temps.
These same types of people:
"Lets all go feel the cold and have Popsicles!"
It's hot.
There, see, I just saved you a trip. You're welcome
woah, thanks!
I went there in January with my husband a few years ago. Weather was wonderful during the day
Exactly. I usually go in late Sept. It's still hot, but tolerable if you're not exerting yourself. But for hikers, winter best time. 😊
I lived south of Death Valley in Trona in the early 80s. I’ll never understand why people go out there for fun… especially in the summer months.
"Honestly I don't know how anything can survive out here" - Someone that doesn't grasp the name Death Valley
Side note I drove in - 54C / -65F And while you could live longer in the heat with water And shade....Cold turns your fingers and toes ears nose black And you lose them Water freezes Take someone dressed in this video And place them in -54c hypothermia can set in in just 5 to 7 minutes, I remember breathing in this cold And it burned my throat.
Why couldn't this heat be turned into electricity? I'm not talking about solar rays, I'm talking about the heat. If the alien crafts can do it, why can't we?
Highest officially recorded temp I lived through in Phoenix is 119 and that’s plenty hot enough for me.
Howard Finkel: From Death Valley California, I give to you THE UNDERTAKER!
I wouldn’t dare go to Death Valley right now. It has that name for a reason. I’m in the Central Valley where it’s hot enough!!! No desire to feel it at 130°
Get a job at a fossil fuels or biomass power plant, or at a steel mill or a hundred other jobs and you can feel these temperatures every single day.
Temps are to be taken in the shade away from structures.
Dont worry, we all going be able to feel it in a few years
Explain
Keep drinking the Kool-aid. There is no such thing as AGW.
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTERyou really haven’t been keeping up with current events have you?
@@petersanders2815 Political hoaxes, masquerading as science, ARE current events. And yes I keep up with them. I suggest you start doing the same.
@@petersanders2815 @petersanders2815 Political hoaxes, masquerading as science, ARE current events. And yes I keep up with them. I suggest you start doing the same. (2nd repost)
Was part of the crew that did the AC in the retail / food / beverage building .Nothing compares to this intensity all day you just want to leave you’re uncomfortable every second of the day a cold drink of water is never enough. If anything happens to you out there you’re FFFed no help is close by 😂