reminder that the hottest temperature record in most states is from the 1940s or earlier. the one for new mexico is from a weather station in a literal nuclear waste dump.  > in 1973, as a result of these concerns, and because of positive interest from the southern new mexico community, the doe relocated the site of the proposed nuclear waste repository, now called the waste isolation pilot plant (wipp), to the delaware basin salt beds located near carlsbad, new mexico. > the waste isolation pilot plant is where the highest temperature ever recorded in new mexico at 122 f (50 c) occurred during the summer of 1994.
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