Title is a little misleading as they are referring to Death Valley - but it looks like records could be broken in a lot of areas of the southwest US with temperatures approaching 120 degrees.
We are entering the "find out" phase a lot sooner and quicker than even my pessimistic self could have predicted.
It's because the gradual lead-up period was predictably incremental for the last couple of decades. This led many to dismiss the true scope of the catastrophically disruptive forces that are now converging upon us. The doomsayers always warned us about crossing several key tipping points, and we will inevitably surpass them sooner than predicted. That's when it really starts to accelerate to civilization-threatening conditions.
Damn when you put it that way