Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. That is primarily due to its mixed urban-rural ratio. Al Gore received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for John Kerry in 2004.
On 21 July 2016, Mitribah in Kuwait also recorded a maximum temperature of 54.0 Â°C (129.2 Â°F), tying Death Valley's highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth, while Basra in Iraq reached 53.9 Â°C (129.0 Â°F) that day.
A high pressure dome over the Middle East brought what may be one of the most extreme heat indices ever recorded in the world on July 31st. According to media reports, in the city of Bandar Mahshahr, the air temperature of 46Â°C (115Â°F) combined with a dew point of 32Â°C (90Â°F) for a heat index on 74Â°C (165Â°F).