Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the Mojave, oh, the beloved Mojave, land of mystery and wonder.

And what is the Mojave that we are always going on about?

It is the driest of American desert, and the hottest temperature ever recorded was in the Mojave at the northern end up in depth valley, 134.1 degrees Fahrenheit.

But after many decades of believing that story to be true, I have recently looked it up on the internet to make sure the temperature I recalled

was correct. And now it seems the Furnace Creek reading of July 10, 1913 is considered a

measurement error. At least by some of the experts at the weather underground.

Well, thanks a lot next.

They're going to tell us the world's largest thermometer outside the old bunboy

and baker is not considered an accurate scientific instrument.

It was apparently not a measurement error when just two summers back, Kuwait claimed the 134 degree title and is officially the hottest place for the moment.

They can have it.

There are many classifications regarding the American desert, many competing classification

systems for the American and North American deserts.

Unsatisfied by the usual four or five American deserts that are sort of halfway known

among certain people.

At best, some biologists go so far as to propose more than a dozen named deserts,

including the Thompson-Oconaghan Plateau, an arid region in Canada's British Columbia.

I've been thinking about that desert in western Canada for a while now.

Might need to head up there and check it out.

There's only so much you can learn about a place from the rural property listings on the Internet.

The Mojave Desert is mostly in southeastern California, but it stretches over southern Nevada,

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