(10 Jul 2024)
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Death Valley National Park – 9 July 2024
1. Person taking photo of thermometer
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennette Jurado, supervisory park ranger:
“So behind us we have this, displaced thermometer here at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center. Which is a great place for people to take a picture with and record a bit of this memory of the extreme heat that they got to experience.”
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennette Jurado, supervisory park ranger:
“This thermometer has a probe in the back of it that includes a little bit of radiant heat that’s coming from the metal structure, and also the building. An official thermometer that would be set up by the National Weather Service will have specific parameters in order to make sure it doesn’t pick up radiant heat. So this one usually displays a couple degrees hotter than what the official temperature actually is.”
4. various shots of thermometer outside visitors center
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennette Jurado, supervisory park ranger:
Yeah, we find it in the summertime. This is an incredibly popular place to be, as you can see from the visitors behind me.
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennette Jurado, supervisory park ranger:
“So this thermometer has gone through a number of different, chapters over time. In 2020, we installed an upgrade to include Celsius because we get so many international visitors.”
7. various shots of thermometer outside visitors center
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Pell, South London:
“It’s hard to, to to portray how hot it is, when you speak to people back home. So, I mean, that’s an indicator. And they take the picture. There’s the temperature of 51 people, I don’t know. They might have been hot before, but, 51 that’s really hot”
9. . New temperature equipment
UPSOUND (English) Jennette Jurado, supervisory park ranger:
“A couple of years back, we got this more modern equipment installed by the weather service."
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Las Vegas – 9 July 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Berc, Meteorologist at the National Weather Service:
“We have an automated sensor at Death Valley that’s been in an enclosure out behind the visitor center.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Berc, Meteorologist at the National Weather Service:
“The automated sensor that is our official temperature is cited so that it’s got little influence from nearby equipment, nearby buildings and such. So we, and when we calibrate that, we go out and we maintain it.”
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Death Valley National Park – 9 July 2024
12. various National Weather Service equipment
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennette Jurado, supervisory park ranger:
“I don’t think you can work here in Death Valley and not get, interested in weather and just the fascinating. Just place in history that you have to be seeing. Records get broken.”
14. National Weather Service equipment
STORYLINE:
At Death Valley National Park, tourists queued for photos in front of a giant thermometer the National Park Service keeps near the visitor center. It’s not precise. It registers the temperature anywhere from 1 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit higher than more modern instruments kept by the National Weather Service nearby, providing a more impressive reading for pictures.
“It’s not cited to be an official temperature sensor,” said Dan Berc, a warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
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