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10 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Today's temperature of 130.0°F at Death Valley is the fourth-highest temperature ever recorded anywhere on Earth. All three higher temperatures are disputed.

If confirmed by @WMO, it would be the highest reliably-measured temperature in human history.

Today and tomorrow are expected to be even hotter in Death Valley.

This is climate change.

@currently has more:
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Yesterday Death Valley hit 120°F at noon.

Today it hit 120°F before 11 a.m.

That puts Death Valley on track to beat yesterday's highest-reliably-measured-temperature-in-human-history of 130°F. current conditions at Death...
At noon today, the temperature at Death Valley is 123°F

That's 3°F hotter than this time yesterday. On pace for another record-breaking day. If the temperature keeps climbing at yesterday's pace, it could reach 133°F. death valley weather condit...

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12 Jul
On Friday, Death Valley recorded the hottest day ever measured, anywhere in the world: High 130°F, Low 104°F, Ave 117°F.

Today was even hotter.

High 128°F, Low 108°F(‼️), Ave 118°F

We are in a climate emergency.
getrevue.co/profile/curren…
That overnight low of 108°F is still preliminary — the day isn't over yet after all.

If it holds (it will) it'll be the hottest night ever measured anywhere in the world outside of Oman (109°F).
cnn.com/travel/article…
That overnight low temperatures are warming worldwide more quickly than daytime highs is a telltale signal of climate change.

It's also making heat waves more deadly everywhere, because bodies don't have a chance to recover.
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6 Jul
Hot take: I honestly couldn't care less about Fox Weather.

The folks who are going to be interested in Fox Weather aren't the folks who are forward-thinking in a rapidly warming world.

That's the reason we're making @currently —a weather service built for the climate emergency.
To be relevant in 2021, coverage of weather and climate has to be grounded in truth. It has to be trustworthy. It has to be personal. It has to meet people where they are.

The main truth of our time is the climate emergency & that we need systemic change to thrive this century.
Any media service — especially a weather service — not grounded in that truth is not going to do well.

Viewers are smart. We know when we're being lied to, we know when key facts are missing.

That's why leading with climate is the only way weather coverage is going to work.
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1 Jul
So, the heat wave in Canada was so strong that it created extreme wildfire conditions, and when the fires started the heat plumes were so strong they created severe thunderstorms, which are so strong they're creating lightning that's sparking new fires
It's way, way scarier when you watch the satellite footage.

These fires and the severe thunderstorms around them produced 710,117 lightning strikes in Canada yesterday.

That's a lot.

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27 Jun
We're just about an hour away from today's @currently Spaces chat on the Northwest heatwave:

15 min to go. Join our @currently heatwave chat:

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We're live now!!

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27 Jun
Good morning. Today will be the hottest day in the history of the Pacific Northwest.

This heat wave is what climate change looks like. Quite frankly this is one of the most unusually extreme weather events I’ve ever seen in my 18 years as a meteorologist.
getrevue.co/profile/curren…
It's 99°F at noon in Portland.

The high today will be 110°F+, hotter than it has ever been in Houston or Miami.

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There it is: A new all-time record high, before noon, in June. Just unreal.

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26 Jun
In Portland, it just passed 100°F.

Today could become the hottest day in the city's history.

Tomorrow will be even hotter — 112°F. Hotter than it's ever been in Houston.

And all this is with about ~3°F of global warming.

We are in a climate emergency.

getrevue.co/profile/curren…
We built @currently as a weather service for the climate emergency. We'll be covering this heat wave as a justice issue, because it is.

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Minutes ago, Portland reached 106°F — that officially ties the hottest temperature ever recorded there.

wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getob…
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