(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.”
3. Back of thermometer
4. 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.”
5. woman taking photo of temperature
6. 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.
7. 127F 53C on display
8. 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.”
9. 127F zoom shot
10. 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, isn’t it? 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”
11. display at 126F/52C
12. 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. But when I started here a few years back, every morning we would go to this white beehive shape and take a look at what was on the mercury, write it down. And that was part of the weather tradition where we were using that mercury thermometer, comparing with some of the new modern technology, as we were kind of transitioning between the two.”
13. 52C zoom
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Las Vegas – 9 July 2024
14. 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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Death Valley National Park – 9 July 2024
15. equipment behind visitors center
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Las Vegas – 9 July 2024
16. 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
17. equipment behind visitors center
18. 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.”
19. various equipment behind visitors center
STORYLINE:
“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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