FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2016 file photo, a youth takes a drink on a hill overlooking the city after a long hot day in Madrid, Spain. Earth’s 16-month sizzling streak of record high temperatures is finally over, according to one group of federal meteorologists. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last month’s 60.6 degrees was merely the second hottest September on record for the globe. That’s ever so slightly cooler, a few hundredths of a degree, than the record set in 2015. But it was quite a bit warmer, 1.6 degrees, than 20th century average. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)
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