I mean... tbf that's literally the first place I would think of, in the USA at least, that would do so?
The Sahara would be another, world-wide.
As this article literally stated, with these two sentences within three sentences of one another:
Death Valley is extremely well adapted to this kind of heat — 120 degrees Fahrenheit is not quite such a big deal for this place.
Yesterday reached 118 and today is forecasted for 121
To me, it's either a big deal or its... not? A discussion of how long the temperatures remained at or near those peaks would have been much more impactful, imho.
They did eventually wrap around to some kind of a point:
But even worse is the potential for the conditions that we’re used to seeing in Death Valley becoming more recurrent in the places near Death Valley. The way Death Valley is now might be the way that surrounding areas of the desert could become if climate change stays on its trajectory.
So this whole article could be summarized in just these words: "desert areas might expand in the future [frowny emoji]". Click the article anyway if you want to support this level of "journalism", but now at least you don't have to.