The UK also recorded its hottest June while the impact of high temperatures is also being felt at the world's extremes ... are that July will be the warmest ever, and with it the hottest month ...

Death Valley also holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded on the planet: 56.6 degrees in 1913, according to Guinness World Records. That reading has been disputed, however.

According to the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang blog, the heat record in Pakistan also holds up as the world's hottest ... said it probably was also the highest temperature “yet reliably ...

Last year was the hottest yet recorded around the world, and in Santa Clara County 38 deaths were determined to be ...