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Posted: 2018-08-01T20:34:26Z | Updated: 2018-08-01T20:48:04Z

It was an average 108.1 degrees in Californias Death Valley national park in July, marking the hottest month ever recorded anywhere on Earth.

The temperatures recorded at one of the parks main weather stations were first reported in Forbes by Brian Brettschneider, a climate researcher at the University of Alaska. The scorching average daily temperature, he said, knocks Death Valleys marginally cooler July 2017 from its spot as the planets hottest month on record.

For four days in a row starting July 24, temperatures peaked for the month at an unimaginable 127 degrees setting daily records each day. According to data published Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , daily highs never dipped below 113 degrees, and there were at least 10 days where the daily low never sank below 100 degrees.