Photo Gallery: Keeping cool in the heat
This July has been a record-breaking scorcher across North America, with temperatures hot enough to make a winter-hardy, summer-foolish Canadian sizzle.
Jonathan Zitouni celebrates his ninth birthday and beats the heat as he cools down in a fountain at in Montreal.Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press
A boy sells cold drinks on a street corner in Washington.JONATHAN ERNST/The New York Times
A thick band of haze shrouds downtown Los Angeles on Monday.Nick Ut/The Associated Press
Street artist David Everitt-Carlson goes shirtless inside his box as he attempts to stave off the heat in Union Square.John Minchillo/The Associated Press
Airiannys Milford listens to music on her iPad in the shade at South Pointe Park in Miami Beach, Fla.Alan Diaz/The Associated Press
Friends Macy Hagen (L), 6, and Rylee Fairchild, 3, beat the heat by playing in a pool in Cole Camp, Missouri.ADREES LATIF/Reuters