The hottest July: America’s Southwest boils in the heat

Phoenix residents have suffered burns after falling on the city’s scalding roads

Death Valley in the US
Temperatures in Death Valley reached 128°F (53.3°C) in July
(Image credit: Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, said David Wallace-Wells in The New York Times – and for the residents of Arizona, it certainly felt like it.

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