That article gives some more details about when and where it happened:
On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of nowhere, on private ranch lands in California's Central Valley...And on this day, their complaints turned into terror. One of their team members, a man in his mid-50s, collapsed on the job...
While the Central Valley can have searing heat in the summer, it's generally less so in the winter... so I looked up the weather for Merced, CA in Feb 2015 and temperatures were:
Max: 75 °F Avg: 67 °F Min: 55 °F [1]
While 75 is warm when doing heavy labor, it sounds like the article is exaggerating when it refers to "...extreme temperatures of the Central Valley..."
Johnny555|9 years ago
On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of nowhere, on private ranch lands in California's Central Valley...And on this day, their complaints turned into terror. One of their team members, a man in his mid-50s, collapsed on the job...
While the Central Valley can have searing heat in the summer, it's generally less so in the winter... so I looked up the weather for Merced, CA in Feb 2015 and temperatures were:
Max: 75 °F Avg: 67 °F Min: 55 °F [1]
While 75 is warm when doing heavy labor, it sounds like the article is exaggerating when it refers to "...extreme temperatures of the Central Valley..."
[1] https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMCE/2015/2/13/...
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