Death valley noteert de heetste juli (2018) uit de geschiedenis.

July 2018 has been one of the hottest months in California history, and in Death Valley, California, the temperatures were so extreme in July that they set a new record for the hottest month ever measured at a U.S. station: an average temperature of 108.0°F (42.2°C). According to WU weather historian Christopher C. Burt, this beats the previous U.S. record for all-time hottest month, set just last year (July 2017), of 107.4° (41.9°C)--also at Death Valley. There is still one day remaining in July to add to tabulate the final record; with the July 31 average temperature for Death Valleylikely to be near 112°F, that would push the final monthly number up to 108.1°F. According to weather records expert Maximiliano Herrera, that would fall just short of the world record for hottest monthly temperature: 108.5°F (42.5°C) at Dehloran, Iran in July 2000. (Note that the average temperature for a day is computed by averaging together the high and low temperature; these daily averages are then used to compute the average temperature for the month).