On this date in 1913, the hottest temperature ever reported in North America was recorded at the Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California. 134ºF/56.7ºC … in the shade.
Wyoming joined the Union as the 44th state on this date in 1890. Wyoming is the 10th largest state, but has the fewest people of any state. Its highest point is 13,804 feet above sea level; it’s lowest 3,099.
Lolita is 59 today; that is, actress Sue Lyon, who played the title role in the 1962 film.
134 degrees in the shade! What shade?
Maybe the shade the thermomter made.
I remember one August after concluding a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada Mountains I tried to buy ice in Lone Pine, California, in the Owens Valley and there was not a bag to be had anywhere in town. We ended up buying ice in Death Valley. I thought that was ironic.
Another August, three years later, John and I drove through Death Valley on the way back to the Owens Valley and another Sierra backpacking adventure and had it rain on us. Rain in the summer in Death Valley seemed pretty rare to me.
Fourteen days later as we drove back through Death Valley on the way home it rained again.