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.
This Day In History, September 13, 1922: El Azizia, Libya reached a world record-breaking temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit. Man, that's hot. Heat may be a welcome sensation to anyone in the northern hemisphere who is dreading the impending autumn. But, there are some places where the temperature gets too extreme to bear. According to the Discovery Channel, though, the notion of the hottest place is difficult to pinpoint.