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Children cool off at a water park in Alhambra, California, where water falls from a bucket on July 27, 2014, as temperatures were hovering over 90 degrees. Hot on the heels of California's warmest year ever in 2013, the first six month of 2014 have been the hottest the state has ever recorded, according to figures released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration earlier this week as California goes through its third year of drought. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. Brown (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

Children cool off at a water park in Alhambra, California, where water falls from a bucket on July 27, 2014, as temperatures were hovering over 90 degrees. Hot on the heels of California's warmest year ever in 2013, the first six month of 2014 have been the hottest the state has ever recorded, according to figures released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration earlier this week as California goes through its third year of drought. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. Brown        (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)