Sucks that the town literally got so hot that it was burnt off the map, yet all they got was a "We failed to hit 50C" T-shirt.

Red Bluff is not arid and hit 121°F in August 1981. I could see a black swan heat event getting to 125-127°F in the Sacramento Valley. It’s an interesting paradox where places like Lytton, Pasco, and Redding being in the temperate zone actually increases their upper end heat potential in heatwaves in terms of departure from average compared to a subtropical location like Palm Springs or Lake Havasu.

Silopi, Turkey has a Csa climate and also has a 50.5°C record high. Lytton with its 49.6°C was so close, yet so far from reaching the legendary 50.0°C

GFS has 120 burgers in the CA Central Valley. Great boating wx.

Yesterday, the city of Hami, China had a max temp of 44.7°C and a low temp of 36.7°C, the highest low temp ever recorded in China. Average July low there is 19.3°C only. So a really extreme +17.4°C anomaly. And also the hottest night ever recorded ANYWHERE ON EARTH above 40°N and 700 m. Turpan also tied its July record with 49.1°C.