As the summer waxed,
old temperature records fell all over the Northern hemisphere; in Russia the heatwave would be brutal enough to kill 11,000 people in Moscow alone, and would cost the nation an estimated 7 - 15 billion US dollars.
Not exact matches
Cleveland remained below freezing after
temperatures fell to minus 11 F (minus 24 C) on Monday, breaking a 130 - year -
old record.
The
oldest high -
temperature record that
fell in 2012 was beaten when the mercury hit 87 °F at Elko Regional Airport in Nevada on April 22.