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More than 50 million people across the US are under heat alerts amid a brutal heat wave.
More than 165 daily high temperature records could be tied or broken this week .
In Oregon , four people died of suspected heat-related illnesses over the weekend .
Dozens of locations in the West and Pacific Northwest tied or broke previous heat records in last few days .
The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 degrees Fahrenheit in July 1913 in Death Valley .
June marked the twelfth month in a row in which the global average temperature was at least 1.5 degrees Celsius ( 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ) warmer than in pre-industrial times.
In Arizona ’s Maricopa County , which encompasses Phoenix , there have been at least 13 confirmed heat-related deaths this year .
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