We've had 100-107 degree temps every day for the past two weeks. The ground has been so dry that sparks from the wheels of a passing train started a brush fire the other day. Fireworks have been banned. Today for the first time in over a month, it rained... For all of ten minutes, just long enough to turn it from a dry, arid, desert type heat to a moist, muggy, sticky, wet heat...
***EDIT***
I just found out that the intense heat has caused the pavement to start buckling on some roads here...
It's literally hot enough to melt the pavement...