http://www.newsweek.com/death-valley-california-heatwave-floods-rain-climate-1739512 > California's Death Valley is set to bake in a dangerous heatwave, just a month after it experienced record-breaking rainfall. > Death Valley is known as a location of extremes. It is the hottest place on Earth, setting the world record highest air temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (57 Celsius) in July, 1913.