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The 118-degree-Fahrenheit temperature was measured on the ground in Verkhojansk, in Yakutia, Eastern Siberia, by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel satellites. Other ground temperatures in the region included 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) in Govorovo and 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) in Saskylah, which had its highest temperatures since 1936. It’s important to note that the temperatures being discussed here are land surface temperatures, not air temperatures. The air temperature in Verkhojansk was 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius)—still anomalously hot, but not Arizona hot.

It’s incredibly, record-breakingly, worryingly hot in multiple states right now. A heat wave sweeping over the U.S. this week is felling temperature records left and right. Grid operators are begging with customers to conserve energy to avoid blackouts and wildfires are spreading. The whole ordeal foretells our sweaty, scary future.

It’s actually kind of difficult to grasp how serious and how widespread this heat wave is. For a little context: Doctors in Arizona and Nevada warned this week that people could get burned on hot asphalt, sand, and sidewalks as temperatures soared. Temperatures in Death Valley reached 125 degrees Fahrenheit (51.7 degrees Celsius) this week and temperatures are expected to be even hotter on Thursday, just a few degrees off the all-time hottest temperature on Earth set at the same site last year. The extreme heat and warnings didn’t keep people from showing up to visit the park to get a taste of the heat (or maybe to get used to what our new climate dystopia feels like).

A number of cities have already seen their hottest days ever recorded at any time of year. Among them are Salt Lake City, which hit 107 degrees Fahrenheit (41.7 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday. Billings, Montana and Casper, Wyoming also tied all-time high records at 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 Celsius) and 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 degrees Celsius) respectively. Last Vegas, meanwhile, just missed setting an all-time high as did Phoenix. The latter, though, did set an all-time hot low temperature; the temperature there only bottomed out at an unbearable 90 degrees (32.2 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday, smashing its former record.