Athens: Temperatures were predicted to soar above 40 degrees Celsius in Greece on Saturday, making it the country's hottest July weekend in 50 years. At the same time, the southern US was experiencing a heat wave that broke records, and it was predicted that it would continue to grow over the next few days.

This summer has been extremely hot, with tens of millions of people in the northern hemisphere suffering from it, and July looks to be on track to be the hottest month on record.

Experts have accused global warming of being a major factor in destructive weather as temperature records continue to fall. They claim that climate change brought on by the burning of fossil fuels is to blame.

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Kostas Lagouvardos, the director of research at the National Observatory, told ERT television on Saturday that the data indicate that we will likely experience a heatwave lasting 16–17 days—something that has never occurred in our nation before.

Greece's previous record for a heat wave was set in 1987, when 11 days of sweltering temperatures of more than 39C were recorded.
According to the National Weather Service, this weekend will be unbearably hot for about 80 million people in the southern US.

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Phoenix, Arizona, which has experienced a record-breaking three weeks in a row of highs above 43C, is predicted to experience the worst heat in the nation, with temperatures reaching up to 46C.

Meanwhile, visitors have flocked to the California-Nevada bordering Death Valley National Park to take selfies with the temperature display outside the visitor center.

A world record of 56.7C was set in July 1913, but several meteorologists believe that it was likely the result of an inaccurate measurement and that many are hoping to see it be surpassed.

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In any case, according to top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt, July 2023 is on track to be the hottest month on record — not just historically, but also in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years."