I've lived in Arkansas my entire life and I've seen some really hot temperatures over those years... But NOTHING like the World Record temps over the weekend in Death Valley, where they reached 130F on Sunday!
A very appropriately named Furnace Creek, California, may have seen the hottest reliable temperature on record, according to many news sources. Before this, records are considered "questionable" in their precision, but the WMO still recognizes 134F (56.7C) from Death Valley on July 10, 1913, and 131F from Kebili, Tunisia on July 7, 1931.
Whether it's a new "official World Record" or not, that's still waaaaay too hot for my taste.