Elvis impersonator Cristian Morales wipes sweat from his brow while standing out on The Strip posing for photos with tourists, June 27, 2013, in Las Vegas. Julie Jacobson/AP
Five-year-old Ashawn Rabb runs through a fountain at the Red Ridge Park kids water park, June 27, 2013, in Las Vegas. Children with their parents stayed past sundown to cool off in the park's fountains after temperatures in Las Vegas hit 112 degrees F. Julie Jacobson/AP
City Sound Drum & Bugle Corps member Ericka Herrera rubs ice on the back of Brandon Austin as Gilbert Nazari splashes him with ice water at practice during a heat wave in Bordwell Park, June 30, 2013, in Riverside, Calif. Terry Pierson/The Press-Enterprise/AP
Ten-year-old Easton Martin of Mesa, Ariz., stops to cool off in a misting fan while walking along The Strip with his family, June 28, 2013, in Las Vegas. A heat wave, expected to send the mercury soaring to nearly 120 degrees F. in Phoenix and Las Vegas, settled over the West. Julie Jacobson/AP
Adrian Flores (l.) and his grandson James, 10, sit at a table inside East Los Angeles Library, which is a designated 'Heat Emergency Cooling Center,' as a potentially dangerous heat wave grips the western US, in Los Angeles, June 29, 2013. Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters
Sajhouday Muhammad, 9, from Los Angeles cools off in the Pacific Ocean during a heat wave in Santa Monica, Calif., June 28, 2013. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
A rainbow appears north of El Reno, Okla., near US Highway 81 after a tornado touched down near El Reno, May 31, 2013. Chris Machian /Omaha World-Herald/AP
Ashley Slinkard (l.) embraces Becky Brady as they look over the destroyed home of Brady's daughter, June 1, 2013, after an overnight storm in St. Charles, Mo. Huy Mach/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP
Fort Wayne firefighters Jerry Shultz (l.) and Brian Sorgen (r.) help Karen Hudda wade through the flood waters in front of her West State Boulevard home, June 1, 2013, in Fort Wayne, Ind. Residents evacuated their homes after overnight storms dumped heavy rainfall, causing severe flash flooding. Chad Ryan/The Journal Gazette/AP
Lightning strikes over One World Trade Center (c. right) during a thunderstorm seen from The Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J., June 2, 2013. Julio Cortez/AP
Jerry Dirks (r.) hugs her friend Earlene Langley after a tornado hit Driks' home just south of Carney, Okla., May 19, 2013. Ms. Dirks was in her cellar at the time the tornado hit. Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman/AP
A tornado touches down southwest of Wichita, Kan., near the town of Viola, May 19, 2013. The tornado was part of a line of storms that passed through the Central Plains. Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle/AP
Linda Lou Wilson carries a box of debris from the bathroom of her damaged home in the Rancho Brazos subdivision of Granbury, Texas, May 19, 2013. Neighborhood residents continued cleanup of their damaged homes after a May 15 tornado wreaked havoc on the area, injuring dozens and killing six people. G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News/AP
Marlena Hodson walks out of her home as her grandsons, Campbell Miller, 10, and Dillon Miller, 13 (r.), help her sort through belongings after a tornado damaged her home in Carney, Okla., May 19, 2013. Ms. Hodson and her family left the home to escape the tornado. Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman/AP
Johnny Ortiz (l.) and James South (r.) carry Miguel Morales (c.), who was injured in a tornado, to an ambulance in Granbury, Texas, on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Officials report the tornado caused 'multiple fatalities' as it tore through two neighborhoods of a north Texas town. Mike Fuentes/AP
Heavy equipment is used in the effort to reinforce a temporary levee, April 22, in Clarksville, Mo. The swollen Mississippi River has strained a hastily erected makeshift floodwall in Clarksville, creating two trouble spots that volunteers were scrambling to patch. Jeff Roberson/AP
Tom McReynolds clears snow from a neigbor's house in Wichita, Kan., Feb. 21, 2013. Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of Wichita buried under 13 inches of still-falling snow, but winter storm warnings stretched from eastern Colorado through Illinois. Jaime Greene/The Wichita Eagle/AP
In this file photo, a neighborhood near New Haven, Conn., is buried in snow in the aftermath of a storm that hit Connecticut and much of New England Feb. 10, 2013. Connecticut officials plan to seek additional federal reimbursement for storm-related expenses incurred by the state and municipalities during the recent blizzard. They say their request is justified given the enormity of the storm, which left up to three feet of snow in some places. Craig Ruttle/AP
Aimee Greenwalt (l.) and Amanda Parish survey the damage in Hazelwood, Mo., caused by a storm, April 10, 2013. Butch Dye, a hydrometeorological technician with the National Weather Service in St. Louis, said severe weather struck the suburb of Hazelwood. David Carson/Post-Dispatch/AP
Jackie Arrandondo is covered with snow as she waits for the city bus, Feb. 22, 2013 in Minneapolis. A major snowstorm that buried parts of the Midwest grazed southern Minnesota, where two to three inches of snow snarled the morning commute in the Twin Cities area. Elizabeth Flores/The Star Tribune/AP
A Hattiesburg, Miss., resident walks through a tornado-damaged neighborhood Feb. 11, 2013, after cutting away branches blocking the entrance of a senior citizen's home. A tornado that touched down the day before caused damage throughout the south Mississippi college town. Rogelio V. Solis/AP
Chicago Fire Department Lt. Charley De Jesus walks around an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire in Chicago, Jan. 23, 2013. An Arctic blast, with at least three deaths linked to the frigid weather, and fierce winds made some locations feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero F. (minus 46 degrees Celsius). John Gress/Reuters
Lighting flashes over the Chicago skyline, June 12, 2013. An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, lightning, and tree-toppling winds was rolling through the Midwest and could affect more than 1 in 5 Americans from Iowa to Maryland. Scott Eisen/AP
June 2013 broke monthly records over much of northern Canada, western Russia, southern Japan, the Philippines, part of southwestern China, and central southern Africa.
Earth experienced its fifth-hottest June on record, according to a report released on Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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