DEATH VALLEY, Calif. - California's Death Valley has long been known as one of the hottest places on Earth.
And true to form, the temperature climbed to an incredible 130 degrees in the northern Mojave desert all three days this past weekend.That's just four degrees shy of the highest known temperature on the planet, which was also recorded in death valley in 1913.The temperature never dropped below 100 degrees in Death Valley this past weekend.Meanwhile, firefighters were working in extreme temperatures across the U.S.
West and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in California and Oregon, as another heat wave baked the region, straining power grids.The largest wildfire of the year in California — the Beckwourth Complex —.