The career of Indian classical music in the western world began roughly three years later, when George Harrison, alerted to Ravi Shankar's virtuosity by the Byrds, took a short crash course in the sitar from the Indian musician.
In 1911, the first permanent weather station was established at what is now Furnace Creek Ranch. On July 10, 1913, the weather station measured a record high of 134 F (57 C), a temperature that has not been beat anywhere in the United States since. [Related: The Harshest Environments on Earth ].
Death Valley has the hottest summers in the Western Hemisphere, and is the only known place in the United States where nighttime temperatures sometimes remain above 100Â°F. The highest average annual temperature in the world, possibly a world record, is the 94Â°F, at Dalol (or Dallol), Ethiopia. The station is in a salt desert and is based on only 6 years of data, October 1960âNovember 1966. Lugh (or Luuq), Somalia, East Africa has an annual mean recorded temperature of 88Â°F. In the United States the station normally having the highest annual average is Key West, Florida, 77.8Â°F; the highest summer average, Death Valley, California, 98.2Â°F; and the highest winter average, Key West, Florida, 70.2Â°F.