[Closed] Death Valley?

Been a couple of times, it feels hot 🙂

It was 120 Fahrenheit when we were there.

TBH 105 F in Missouri with 95% humidity feels worse

I have Yakutsk as one of my weather pages. Purely because it's got a daft range of temps.
-40 all winter & over +30 in summer.

Death Valley must be just stifling.

I've been. It's hot, but not stifling because it's so dry.

There's a golf course there...

I've worked in Kuwait in 50 degrees with low humidity. At first it feels like the oven door thing but all the time. After a month or so I was sunbathing at midday and was wearing a jumper when it was 30 degrees!

Anywhere with high humidity is something I cannot acclimatise to.

Edit: I was with the Air Force at the time so when I say worked I actually mean 'sat around and sunbathed'

My ex turned the aircon off in the place we were staying. I woke up after a few hours at 38 degrees almost paralysed

you have to be a bit of a devil to play at the golf course...

its the night time temps that nearly kills me.
had 36 c at lake mead at3 am did not sleep much that night

Not Death Valley since I was a kid (too young to really remember) but I went to Moab at the height of summer. When we set out to ride the Slickrock trail at 7am it was 98 deg F.

Because it is so dry, it doesn't feel too stifling, but then again there's virtually no shade, so no escape. Plus, when the wind blows, it's like opening the oven door.

It was about 45 degC when I visited the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Was OK (for looking at stuff 🙂 )

Pissed down when we were there. Got some amazing photos of the black sky approaching over the sands. Years ago though so not digital unfortunately.

I've been in the Middle East in the low 50's. It's unbearable. Even the locals avoid it and head for the A/C. By the coast is humid too which makes it worse. You can stand 5 mins at the most.

It felt hot.

I boiled the clutch fluid in "my" SRT Viper in Death valley, and had to drive out without a clutch, which was fun! (especially when the lead car kept taking a wrong turning and doing a U turn, forcing me to "turn the car around" using the loud pedal and not stopping.... 😉

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It was just about 52deg when we were there, and as the viper has side exit exhausts, you needed to be a crab to get out without burning a large patch of skin off your inner leg!

We even managed to find a proper road with bends in it whilst there:

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(we assumed there was a "1" in front of that "20" sign btw.....)

Have camped and hiked there several times, but always in the fall, winter or spring. Pretty brutal in the summer. I lived in Las Vegas for 11 years and really not much difference in the summer---kind of hard to tell much difference between 105F and 120F---both are flipping hot!

Worked in 50° heat a few times when doing Marquee jobs in the middle of summer. 10m up in the apex of the marquee, it gets baking, especially if there's a heavy lining inside. Nearly fell off the tower once through slipping over in a pool of my own sweat.

You could do about 10 minutes of proper work up there before having to come down to the relatively icy 30° at floor level and necking a litre or so of water

Temperature was bearable. We hit a sandstorm driving out of Death Valley couldn't see a foot in front of the car. I didn't know what to do for the best..pull off the road and probably get stuck (was a focus or similar), stop in the road and risk being flattened by some SUV / truck or just plough on and and pray (the winner)

Like standing in front of a giant hairdryer 😀

Maxtorque: if that picture is taken by the ubehebe crater, I nearly rolled our hire car there, got a drift wrong, hit the bank and was right up on two wheels with my missus looking down on! Would have been bad as typical stupid young tourist with no supplies etc. Its like a million miles from anywhere....good job we had the full damage protection stuff 🙂

I remember getting out at Barstow on the way from LA to Las Vegas. **** me, that felt hot ! I've been hotter since but that was about 115 and the first time I'd been anywhere near that.

We had to drive the long gradually rising dual carriageway with the AC off as the hire car didn't have enough power to run it and keep us moving

Yep. Drove through death valley in a mustang quite a few years back. Like a furnace when you get out of the car

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anyway, from the OP

feels like 46

We had to drive the long gradually rising dual
carriageway with the AC off as the hire car didn't
have enough power to run it and keep us moving

We had to have the heaters on in our old banger, to take the heat away from the engine and stop it overheating.

Went through there as part of a west coast fly drive tour,amazing place,the salt formations on the devils golf course are amazing.The most bizarre thing was seeing warning signs for flash floods! What we were supposed to do if one happened I have no idea! We stayed in a place called Furnace Creek,if ever a place was aptly named then this is it.We drove the tour but there was a british guy there who cycled it, all 3000 miles. He took photos of road and place signs on the tour as a reminder.He had a hell of a suntan.Oh, it was hot-very hot.