This is what you call heat.

[tommy.irene]

California town forecast to be the hottest place in the world EVER today: Temperatures soar in West again as heat wave intensifies

High pressure system hanging over the West and Southwest parts of the country causing record temperatures

Palm Springs, California, could reach 134 degrees today as record heatwave continues

Death Valley in California reached only 125 on Saturday

The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was when Death Valley reached 134 in 1913

U.S. Airways cancels 18 flights in Phoenix because small airliners don't handle properly in heat about 117 degrees

Boiling heat is blasting the West again today in a deadly heatwave across Southern California, Arizona on Nevada that has a chance to break records. 

Forecasters have their eye on Palm Springs, California, which they say could break the world record highest temperature, reaching in excess of 134 degrees Fahrenheit today. 

The heat has already claimed one life. 

Paramedics responded to a Las Vegas home without air conditioning on Saturday and found an elderly man dead. The man had medical issues and paramedics thought the heat worsened his condition.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351869/US-weather-Death-Valley-hits-125-degrees-near-130-de...

[tommy.irene]

NASA has been capturing earth surface temperature data using the Landsat 7 satellite .

The Lut Desert in Iran. Five of the seven years of temperature data (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009) have shown the hottest surface temperatures there. The single highest land surface temperature (LST) recorded in any year, in any region, occurred there in 2005, when MODIS recorded a temperature of 70.7°C (159.3°F) -

[lhasa.two]

Pretty high temps there tommy... 

Apparently 19 firemen have died in Arizona in their attempts to put out fires as a result of the heat, tragic. :_|

When I lived in Spain, one summer there were several fires caused by the heat in my area.

I was working on my computer trying to meet a deadline when a fire broke out about 1,000 metres away... air temps reached about 45c, my computer screen started flickering and changing to colours of the rainbow so I did shut down, otherwise I would have lost my work. I think nowadays computers are able to function better in high temps but back then they went down around 48-50c. They got the planes out and dumped water on the fire and eventually it went out, pretty scary to be so close to it though and of course it's incredibly difficult to breath...