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    Melting Roads And Runny Roofs: Heat Scorches The Northern Hemisphere

    Temperature records have been broken around the globe. In North America, tens of millions of residents have been under watches, advisories and warnings.
    by Amy Held Jul 05, 2018 2 minutes
    On Wednesday, a man sits shirtless on a bench along the banks of the Spree River in Berlin to keep cool.

    It's summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and a couple of constants remain: Just as surely as it's going to be hot, people are going to want to talk about exactly how hot it is.

    But the heat has been so notable in the past week or so that records are being stretched and scorched from Canada to Armenia, with roofs and roads going runny.

    Temperatures that hit around 90 degrees.

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