If you've driving the stretch of I-15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and get off at the Baker exit near Death Valley, you have the opportunity to see the ultimate tacky weather object--the world's tallest thermometer. Rising a full 134 feet above the dusty streets of Baker (population: 700),
the working thermometer is the brainchild of Baker resident Willis Herron, who spent $700,000 erecting the huge instrument. In an article in the June 2005 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Willis says: "Awww, I know it's tacky. But I also know people won't be able to pass it more than four or five times without saying, 'What is that?'". And hopefully pull off the expressway to take a look--and buy a burger at the Mad Greek restaurant or a slice of strawberry pie at the original Bun Boy restaurant, now owned by Steve Carter, whom Herron sold the thermometer to in 2000.
The thermometer weighs 76,812 pounds, sports 4900 light bulbs, and is held together by 125 cubic yards of concrete--much of this added after 70-mph winds snapped the thermometer in half shortly after it was built in 1991. The 134 foot height is symbolic of the 134 degree maximum temperature recorded in Death Valley in 1913--the all-time record for North America.
Dr. Jeff Masters
The world's tallest thermomerter! (
robsters)
Located in Baker, California, 109 degrees
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2. Low near Georgia with thunderstorms. Its over warm water. Low shear forecasted. Why couldnt it form?
3. Upper low trying to be tropical north of Hispanolia. its over warm waters. It could form.
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
530 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2005
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON TROPICAL
STORM HARVEY...LOCATED ABOUT 520 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF
BERMUDA...AND ON TROPICAL DEPRESSION NINE...LOCATED ABOUT 1305
MILES EAST OF THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS.
A WEAK SURFACE LOW IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO IS ASSOCIATED WITH
A NON-TROPICAL UPPER-LEVEL LOW. THIS SYSTEM IS GENERATING SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO
AND FLORIDA PANHANDLE...BUT TROPICAL CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT
EXPECTED.
CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW PRESSURE AREA CENTERED
ABOUT 160 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA HAS MOVED
LITTLE DURING THE DAY. THIS ACTIVITY HAS BECOME DISORGANIZED AND
DEVELOPMENT...IF ANY...WILL BE SLOW TO OCCUR.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL STORM FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH
SUNDAY.
FORECASTER AVILA
now where is the potential for 3 ,more storms turtle..this week will be very boring in the tropics...
Well it seems quiet on my side of the Gulf -
every afternoon we've had nice storms but nothing to get
excited about
TD 9? what a name - better than Gert I suppose
I agree with the Mother Nature comment
I'm sure the temp says the same thing everyday
100 degrees LOL
I know mine never moves in the summer
jokes on us I guess
can I take down the hurricane shutters now?
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