Talk:Badwater Basin/Archive 1

Distances
The Badwater Ultramarathon route begins by heading north from Badwater and covers 135 miles, but the true bearing and distance of Whitney is approximately 85 miles to the west of Badwater. Badwater Ultramarathon discussed the difference, so I didn't clarify the two mileages in Badwater... Sanguinity 04:25, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Distance to Mount Whitney
Maps show nearer to 84.5 miles, going by the lat/long given in these articles. ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.255.247 (talk) 23:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Unofficial 135 deg temperature
See. Could find higher temperatures than record-holder Furnace Creek, California but would require installation of a weather station. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 13:57, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

second lowest point on earth (???)
List_of_places_on_land_with_elevations_below_sea_level BadWater Basin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.148.134.33 (talk) 00:18, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Absolutely not.  Buaidh  21:36, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Unit inconsistency
While it's a cute fact that at an 150 inch annual evaporation rate you could dry up a 12 foot lake in a year, the SI unit version makes less sense: a 3800mm rate can dry up a 3.7m lake in a year means we're missing 10cm somewhere. Perhaps just condense the whole thing in "...because the 1.9 in (48 mm) of average rainfall is overwhelmed by a 150 in (12 ft or 3,8 m) annual evaporation rate." and leave the whole "this means..." out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.117.16.56 (talk) 11:46, 2 October 2016 (UTC)