Another day, another heat record in Phoenix, as America's hottest city sweltered through its warmest August day in over 120 years of record-keeping.

The temperature soared to 118 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport at 3:40 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7. The previous record for the hottest August day was 117 degrees, reached most recently in 2023.

The daily record high of 112 degrees was broken before lunchtime as the heat continued to build through the afternoon.

"We're looking at unusually hot temperatures this week across the Phoenix metro," said Mark O'Malley, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Phoenix. "There's a strong area of high pressure which has settled directly over central Arizona."

The weather service has issued extreme heat warnings across much

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