Due to climate change, summers are changing. People today are facing more frequent, longer-lasting, and hotter heat waves than they did before. Not only does it mean that individuals are getting increasingly sweaty and need to crank up the air conditioning more often, but it also poses major and even deadly health threats. 

To show that extreme temperatures are no joke, our team at Bored Panda has compiled yet another list of striking photos of how heat waves affect every living creature and our surroundings. Scroll down to see how people are desperately trying to cope with such brutal weather, and be sure to share some useful tips you know for combating heat with others down below!

#1 Maybe A Wax Lincoln Sculpture Wasn’t The Best Idea During DC’s First Week Of Summer Heat

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#2 My Pens Are Melting

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#3 Tales Of Heatwave Madness. The Floor Turned To Lava

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#4 117 Degrees In Arizona Today. Melted The Blinds In My House

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#5 Candles Left Outside During A Heatwave

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#6 Another Hot Summer Day In London

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#7 It’s So Hot This Morning That The Light Posts Have Started To Sag

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#8 It’s So Hot That Even Cadbury Blocks Need To Sit Down

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#9 Sun Through The Skylight Is A Direct Hit To The Record Player

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#10 Life Hack

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#11 Taco Bell Sign Melting In Phoenix, AZ

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#12 I Had To Let My Mom Borrow My Crocs Because Her Sandals Melted

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#13 My Son’s Watercolors Got Left In The Sun, And They Shrank Into Round Balls

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#14 This Bottle Of Sparkling Water I Left In My Truck All Day

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#15 This Guy In His Cooling Fan Jacket In 36-Degree Tokyo Heat

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#16 It’s Too Hot Outside

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#17 My Bottle Of Soft Gel Pills Melted Together In The Cupboard. They Are Now Impossible To Separate

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#18 The Glass On Our Outdoor Furniture Just Spontaneously Shattered In The Heat

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#19 My Shoe Melted In My Room In The Summer Heat And, Now It Looks Like Caramel

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#20 Arizona Problems. Left My Credit Card In My Car, And It Melted

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#21 Forgot The Dollar Store Air Horn In The Sun On The Dash Of My Truck

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#22 It’s 102 Degrees In NJ Right Now, Just Saw Someone Putting Ice Water Bottles Out For People At My Train Station

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#23 It’s So Hot That My Rear-View Mirror Is Sliding Down The Windshield

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#24 A Pub In Loughborough Handing Out Free Ice Water In A UK Heatwave

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#25 This Is How Hot It Is In New Orleans

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#26 It’s Called An AZ Summer

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#27 On Public Transport In Hot Weather, Take A USB Desk Fan. Most Buses Here Have USB Chargers For Phones. Plug It In, Turn It Upside Down, And Hang It On The Empty Seat In Front

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#28 Melbourne Heat Warped The Pavement Near A School

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#29 So Hot Today That The Adhesive Holding My Dad’s Phone Together Melted

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#30 Burned Myself On My Seatbelt. Apparently, My Car Is 170 On The Dash Right Now

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#31 The Heat Today Baked The Pine Sap Out Of My Newly Painted Deck

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#32 We’re Cooked (Literally)

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#33 A Very Hot Day Today In The Center Of Rovaniemi In North Finland (Afternoon The Meter Was Showing +32°C). At The Beach, People Weren´t The Only Ones, Who Needed A Little Cooling

These are reindeer, the domesticated versions of caribous found in North America. They roam free in most areas around North Finland.

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#34 My Wife Is So Happy Her Contraption Worked After Leaving Her Flowers Alone For A Week In The 100-Degree Texas Heat

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#35 Apartment AC Went Out During The Recent Texas Heatwave And Management Doesn’t Want To Fix It

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#36 The Heat Has Them Lined Up For Water Today

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#37 It’s So Hot My AC Unit Is Sweating

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#38 The Way The Sun Has Weathered This Sign, So It Looks Like Its Heavy Metal Style

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#39 Welcome To Australian Summer. Had To Pop My Hook In The Fridge Because The Handle Started To Get Soft From The Heat

Has anyone else had this problem? Had these for most of last year, but I guess they missed the heatwave (was 36°C here today – luckily not the 38°C it was meant to be)

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#40 My Vitamin Gummies Melted In The Texas Heat During Transit, And It’s Not Eligible For A Refund

I guess I’ll get a spoon and chisel out a serving every day…

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#41 Sandals Melting In Heatwave

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#42 Rolled Up To My Parents’ House To Find Them Giving Away Free Water For People And Their Dogs In The Excessive Heatwave In America. I’m Proud To Be Their Daughter

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#43 It Was So Hot And Windy In Melbourne Recently That My Flower Planter Caught Fire

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#44 As Temperatures Reach Sweltering Heights, Families Cool Off In Keenjhar Lake In Thatta, Sindh On Sunday

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#45 Sometimes, If The Heat Is High, Corn Can Be Infected By A Fungus That Causes The Kernels To Expand And Become The Delicious Delicacy Known As Huitlacoche

This is eaten, usually as a filling, in quesadillas and other tortilla-based foods and soups.

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#46 My AC Broke. We’re In A Heatwave Of 100°F For The Next Week. She Keeps Taking All The Air

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#47 My Eraser Turned My Calculator’s Plastic To Goop After Leaving Them Together In My Pencil Case Over The Summer

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#48 Las Vegas Heatwave Was No Joke… We Fried An Egg – Cooked In Less Than 10 Minutes

Took a piece of polished sheet metal to create a reflective surface, and angled it to direct sunlight (it’s currently 105°F outside). After 8 minutes – the surface heat of the skillet reached 250°F, and the egg cooked in 2 minutes.

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#49 He Needed Sunglasses. My Neighbor’s Dog Trying To Beat The Heat, And Sun. It’s 91 Outside

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#50 Stores In Turkey Open Their Doors To Stray Dogs To Escape Extreme Heat. There Is Also One On The Stairs That You Can’t See Well

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#51 We Are In A Terrible Heatwave. People Are Selling Used AC Units For $1000+ Online. Our Neighbors Just Installed Central Air So They Gave Us These Cooling Beauties

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#52 My Neighbors Have A Fan For Their Dog Because We Are Melting

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#53 During This Southern California Heatwave, My Local Grocery Store Has Coolers Filled With Complimentary Water Bottles At Each Entrance

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#54 Trying To Frost A Cake In A Heatwave Feels Like That Scene From A Sleeping Beauty

Luckily, it turned out okay in the end, but there were many trips to the fridge and freezer along the way.

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#55 When Curtains Alone Won’t Keep The Heat Out

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#56 Safe To Say This Is One Of My Favorite Customers, Greets Me Occasionally With Cold Water

Well, today he left three of them for me (two frozen)! Makes a world of difference in 97-degree weather… Thank you, sir!

The note says: “To mail lady or man. Thank you for delivering mail in such horrible heat! Stay hydrated and shaded when you can. Thank you!! 3 waters all yours.”

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#57 It’s Been So Hot That The Coconut Oil Has Liquefied

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#58 Extreme Heat Melted Her Car Light

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#59 Going Through A Heatwave And My Family Refuses To Turn On The AC

Their reasoning is that we’d have to shut all the windows, and it’d get hotter before it got colder. Which I understand. But please, for the love of God! I can stand some more unbearable heat if it means we get good coldness. It’s only 3° hotter outside right now.

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#60 California Is So Hot, That You Can Use Your Meat Thermometer To Check The Weather

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#61 This Heat Is Wicked

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#62 It’s Currently 44 Degrees In Melbourne And This Tram Stop Has No Shade Wait In

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#63 It’s Supposed To Be 108 Degrees Today And This Was Sitting At An Intersection In My Neighborhood. Thank You, Neighbor, For Looking Out For All Of Us

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#64 It Was So Hot Yesterday… Even My Shirt Was Feeling The Stress

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#65 It Was So Hot Today That The Adhesive On My Neighbor’s Side View Mirror Failed

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