Window Rock up on the Navajo reservation gets HOT! also
But Australia has really been burning up for a few years now. Part of it is from the cutting and cattle farming and such from what I remember, the local weather system got flubbed for the clear cutting for cattle ranches, and planting of crops but the soil ended up ruined so neither worked out and now the O2 released from the trees cut down and the other affects from cooler ground, soil water saturation etc has really begun to play havoc with the ecology as far as the weather goes. Then take into consideration the Amazon clear cutting following along the same lines and polutants...
Global warming, we don't need no stinking global warming, we've got a binary glitch

1200+ c sheesh, talk about broil!!!
Personally, I think that the scientists need to go back over the data they compiled leading up to, during and after the time we had the Dust Bowl here in the states...