Thermometer in Death Valley, California Shows Highest Global Temperature Since 1913

A thermometer at Death Valley’s Furnace Creek in Southern California has soared to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest global temperature since 1913.

Sara Calcinaro (L) and Marco Rizzelli of Italy walk in the Mesquite Dunes as high temperatures approach record levels in Death Valley National Park, Calif., on June 29, 2013. File Photo via Reuters

A thermometer at Death Valley’s Furnace Creek in the Southern California desert has soared to 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius), the highest global temperature in more than a century, the U.S. National Weather Service said.

“If verified, this will be the hottest temperature officially verified since July of 1913,” NWS Las Vegas, which owns the automated observation system, said of the reading on Sunday afternoon, emphasizing that it was preliminary.