"Last July, California’s Death Valley endured the hottest month ever measured on the planet. This July ended up even hotter.
Over both day and night, the temperature at Death Valley averaged 108.1 degrees, ahead of the mark set a year ago by about a half-degree. That previous mark had broken a record that stood for 100 years.
This year’s exceptional temperature extreme at one of the planet’s hottest locations puts an exclamation mark on a month in which record-high temperatures have fallen on every continent in the Northern Hemisphere."
Source: Washington Post, 08/03/2018
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