An Egyptian farmer walks past his crops damaged by drought in a farm formerly irrigated by the river Nile, in El-Dakahlya, about 120 km (75 miles) from Cairo, June 4, 2013. June 2013 was the fifth-hottest Jund on record, worldwide, and was the hottest June ever in several places. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters)
12:04 am ET -June 2013 broke monthly records over much of northern Canada, western Russia, southern Japan, the Philippines, part of southwestern China, and central southern Africa.
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