Death Valley Gets Record for Hottest Day ... 99 Years Later

California's Death Valley now has the honor of posting the hottest temperature on record, but don't blame climate change—the record-breaker of 134 degrees happened on June 10, 1913. The reason for the belated title? Libya had claimed the hottest day on record since 1992 with a thermometer reading of 136.4 degrees, but a forensics investigation has found that claim to be false, reports NBC News. A panel of World Meteorological Organization experts says the reading was taken with what was essentially a household thermometer, and the observer who recorded it was "inexperienced." (More Death Valley National Park stories.)