Known as "the hottest place on Earth," the temperature in Death Valley National Park, eastern California has hit 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53 degrees Celsius) much earlier than usual. A heat wave in the US, which stretches like a blob over much of the western third of the country’s map, extends east to west from Wyoming to California, and north to south from Idaho to Arizona.

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