Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
People cool off in the Unisphere fountain at the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park as a rainbow is pictured, in the Queens borough of New York on Friday, July 22.
A couple seeks relief from the weather in a fountain. More images of the latest weather can be found in our slideshow.
Mike Segar / Reuters
Tiger, an American Pit Bull Terrier, cools off as he splashes in an open fire hydrant on 134th street in the Washington Heights section of upper Manhattan in New York City July 21. Temperatures were expected to reach near record levels Thursday as a heat wave spread east from the nation's midsection.
These are really the dog days of summer. Full story.
Matt Rourke / AP
Bathers beat the midday heat at the Devil's Pool in Wissahickon Valley Park Wednesday, July 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (
The little spot of red really makes this picture. Full story.
Hot weather slideshow.
Charlie Riedel / AP
Alan Perez, from Wilmington, N.C., seeks shelter from the sun under an umbrella while holding a stop sign to close a road for debris removal Tuesday, July 19 in Joplin, Mo. Despite a recent heat wave, crews continue to clean up nearly two months after an EF-5 tornado destroyed much of Joplin.
The low camera angle makes something striking out of an everyday scene. Full story.
Hot weather slideshow.
What says heat to you? Full story.
Paul Sancya / AP
Walter Gatewood, 87, sits on his front porch trying to beat the heat in Flint, Mich., Monday, July 18. With a heat index well over 100 in most places, a heat wave smothered the Midwest Monday.
Matt Rourke / AP
Jazia Pratt, 8, fills a bucket with water from a fire hydrant in the afternoon summer heat Monday, July 18, in Philadelphia.
From Texas to Michigan, 17 states have issued heat advisories and warnings. This month, heat records have already been tied or broken more than 1000 times. The heat is expected to hit the East Coast starting Wednesday. Kevin Tibbles reports.
Fred Thornhill / Reuters
New York Yankees' Brett Gardner is cooled off in the dugout in the eighth inning of their American League MLB baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto July 16.
Despite the heat, the Yankees won. The middle of the U.S. will not be so lucky as temperatures soar tomorrow. Full story.
Ivan Milutinovic / Reuters
A zookeeper sprays water on a polar bear to help it cool down at Belgrade's zoo July 13.
Ivan Milutinovic / Reuters
Children watch as water is sprayed on an Asian elephant to help it cool down at Belgrade's zoo July 13.
Ivan Milutinovic / Reuters
A zookeeper sprays water on a hippopotamus to help it cool down at Belgrade's zoo July 13, 2011 as an intense heat wave sweeps Serbia with temperature reaching 104 degree Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius).
It must be hot for a polar bear in that kind of heat. I'm guessing zoos across the Midwest and Northeast United States will be doing the same thing today as a heat wave continues there.
See more animals in our new Animal Tracks blog.
Laszlo Balogh / Reuters
A boy enjoys a water chute in Mogyorod near Budapest, Hungary, July 9. Temperatures reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
Patrick Breen / The Arizona Republic via AP
Chris Habetler, left, and Robert Chavez eat the cups of ice given to them to deal with the record 118-degree heat at the Tent City jail on July 2 in Phoenix, Ariz.
Read the full story on the weather in the Southwest here.
Ross D. Franklin / AP
A patron waiting in line at an outdoor Pete's Fish and Chips restaurant cools off near the misting machine, as temperatures even after sunset topped 105 degrees, in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 23.
Ross D. Franklin / AP
A patron stands near the misting machine outside a restaurant in Phoenix on June 23.
Kudos to Ross D. Franklin for finding a way to visualize the heat of a city at night.
Check the forecast for your area on our weather page and see some rather different seasonal images in our Summertime fun slideshow.
Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
A man helps firefighters to extinguish fire in the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh, July 29, 2010. Russia's worst drought for decades is set to drag on for at least the next 7 days in some areas but further serious damage to grain crops is not expected, a senior government weather forecaster said on Thursday.
These peat bog fires in Russia sound like a miserable situation. I wonder if this man's helpful gesture had much effect.
Julian Stratenschulte / EPA
Two boys dive while a girl watches them from the other side through a window at the pool 'Grugabad' in Essen, Germany on July 9. All over Germany, temperatures are extremely high.
This summertime feature image was eliminated from this week's The Week in Pictures during the final round of editing. While the editors felt the lone foot suspended in the left window really added to the playfullness of this image, we also felt that it wasn't quite different enough to set it apart from the underwater swimming image that we did include in the final slideshow. To see more about how we edit The Week in Pictures each Thursday, check out this Behind the Scenes video. See the full slideshow for the week of July 8 - 15 here. Which image do you like best this week, and why?
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