The Location Of death ValleyDeath Valley is located on the border of California and Nevada. Most of Death Valley is in California. What make Death Valley so hot and dry is the fact that mount Whitney is coursing the shadow effect. The shadow effect is when a mount is getting all the rain and then on the other side of the mount there is no water. DIAGRAM =
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Temperature
Death Valley is the hottest place in north America with some temptresses reaching 56.7 decrees Celsius.56.7 is the highest air temperature in the world on record. Death Valley is not only a hot desert in the winter it gets to -9.4C. The reason Death Valley is so hot is because of number of things, the lowest point in the valley is 200 feet below sea level and that is surrounded by 1100 feet mountains. This causes the air to sink and compress which then heats up the air and drys it out.