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Accuweather may be going from a regular town (lately wunderground.com has been completely off for my little area).
Needles is lower than Kelso (and I don't know the exact elevation at their coordinates - but...it would have been a few degrees cooler, I'm thinking, than down at Needles).
I was checking at the NOAA site (as directed to by the Kelso Depot Visitor Center) here:
National Weather Service
It says it's using a location called MidHills or something like that - but I didn't read the small print. It's definitely too high in elevation to be accurate for Kelso Depot. Ox Ranch data is still a little too high (but if compared to Essex, the temp would be about half way in between). Here's the link:
OX Ranch California
Ox Ranch says it was 95 degrees that day, Needles was 114, so it was probably around 105 that day (which is what I recall a SAR team member tweeting - I follow a bunch of them, can't now find which one it was). That tweet was from Saturday, though (personal reasons for remembering that). But anyway, Mojave Preserve is (to me) really humane temperature compared to Bullhead/Needles, usually about 10 degrees cooler and even cooler than that at the campground areas. Still hot, though (95 is hot)
Temps in all these places remained at their maximum from around 2 pm to 6 pm...
(Yes, I'm a bit obsessed with weather, many reasons - and with maps, I think that's genetic).