'In an oven': visitors react to Death Valley heat
STORY: [Tracy Fulton, Visitor from Seattle]
“It’s freaking hot.”
Tourists flock to Death Valley where the heat was expected to set a world record
[Rob Petrosyan, Visitor from Los Angeles]
"Sizzling.”
Date: July 16, 2023
[Jennifer Westerlund, Visitor from Los Angeles]
“Super exciting.”
[Amanda Connolly, Visitor from Arizona ]
“In an oven.”
[Tom Comitta, Visitor from New York]
“This park has a problem. And the fact that people are coming out here to celebrate this, the Park Service is giddy. People are excited about tomorrow. It's not a milestone. I'm calling it Happy Death Day because okay, it's a milestone tomorrow. But then next year it's going to be another milestone in ten years, 20 years, it's going 140 here. What are we celebrating?”
Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth during summer
Source: U.S. National Weather Service
Forecasters said the temperatures on July 16 could surpass a high of 130 F set in 2021
Although the expected temperature never arrived
128 Fahrenheit was enough for visitors to feel the burn
[Patrick Oeyen, Visitor from Belgium]
“I've never experienced this kind of heat. It's really, really hot. You can maximum stay out like 10 minutes, 15 minutes. Then you need to have some air cool from the car. “
[Matthew Lamar, Death Valley Park Ranger]
“Yeah, it's people that want to come to areas like that valley and experience the extremes. They want to know what the highest temperatures feel like. And in a place like Death Valley, when we're talking about the hottest temperatures here, we might be talking about some of the highest temperatures ever recorded.
