Hottest Places in U.S. ?

Question

Why is Bullhead City, AZ so frequently on the daily list of hottest places in the U.S., other than Death Valley?

Answer 1

arizonia is in the desernt!

Answer 2

Greenland Ranch, Calif., with 134�F on July 10, 1913, holds the record for the highest temperature ever officially observed in the United States. This station was located in barren Death Valley, 178 ft below sea level. Death Valley is about 140 mi long, 4 to 6 mi wide, and oriented north to south in southwest California. Much of the valley is below sea level and is flanked by towering mountain ranges with Mt. Whitney, the highest landmark in the 48 conterminous states, rising to 14,495 ft above sea level, less than 100 mi to the west. Death Valley has the hottest summers in the Western Hemisphere, and is the only known place in the United States where nighttime temperatures sometimes remain above 100F. Death Valley has a dry heat but come on 134 is hot!

Answer 3

It's quite hot too, but according to this graphic http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/yearbook_of...

Death Valley gets the hot spot ranking more than four times as much as Bullhead City.

Answer 4

Because most of Arizona is desert.

Answer 5

Well I live in pheonix,AZ and it get up to 120-100 usally.

Answer 6

Temp is 110 115 and 120 that is why. I live in a part of California where it gets to be 115 to 120.

Not that many people if at all reside in Death Valley where AZ and California is well populated

Answer 7

Location, location, location!

I don't know for sure because I haven't really studied that part of the country yet, but I'm going to GUESS (key word) that it has to do with a couple things:

   1) You're more south than other locations (you get more sun than say, someone in Maine due to the tilt of the earth)

   2) You're not really next to any body of water.  Large bodies of water affect can really mess with the weather an area gets.

Hope that helps :-)