It's getting hot in here.

An Indian woman walks on the parched bed of Chandola Lake.

Here’s yet another “record-breaking heat” story for your global warming scrapbook: an Indian city hit the hottest recorded temperature in that country’s history: 51 degrees Celsius, or 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit. India’s previous record, 50.6 degrees, was set in 1956.
The record was set in Phalodi, a small city in the midst of a heat wave that has already killed dozens of people across northern India, according to the BBC. Last year, a heatwave in India killed more than 2300 people.

Of course, extreme weather records driven by climate change aren’t unusual these days. Last month was the warmest April on record on Earth. January 2016 was the warmest January ever recorded. Last summer was the hottest summer on record, beating the previous record set in 2014. There were record warm temperatures in cities across America last December, with more than 5,900 daily records for highs and lows set.
2015 was the warmest year on record, and had the highest margin of victory of the previous record warmest year (which was 2014).
And the (terrifying) record-breaking looks set to continue: NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt said last week that there is already a 99 percent chance that 2016 will beat 2015’s record, and the year isn’t even half over yet.