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by falcolas 1068 days ago
Death Valley is also a bit of an outlier in it's dryness. Of course, that's what also makes it a desert.

It wouldn't take much humidity to turn those temperatures into wet-bulb of 100+ - fatal to humans. Expanding the area of this level of heat a couple of hundred miles in any direction would probably be enough.