A desert community in Arizona has broken the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in March in the US.
Temperatures reached 43C (110F) in the area, located just outside Martinez Lake in the Yuma Desert on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
The record-breaking temperature was part of an unusually intense heatwave that blanketed much of the US southwest this week during the final days of winter.
The previous March temperature record of 42C (108F) had been around for more than 60 years and was first set in Rio Grande, Texas, in 1964.
Records for earlier-than-usual high temperatures were broken in multiple states by the heatwave, including in California, Arizona and Nevada.
