It's like a scifi movie!

"A pavement blow-up occurs when the roadway surface expands at a crack or joint where moisture has seeped in, NDOR states on their website. "That crack weakens the pavement and the heat causes the pavement to buckle and warp. This usually occurs on very hot afternoons, as the maximum temperature for the day is reached, typically during afternoons with 90-degree or hotter temperatures."

Why do roads buckle when temperatures rise?

“Most of our physical infrastructure was built using the temperature records of the mid-20th century,” Costa Samaras, principal assistant director for energy with the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in an email. “That is not the climate we have now.”

With extreme heat, we can’t build roads and railways as we used to

Here's how eight cities are taking some of the heat out of their summers.

These cities are better at enduring extreme heat. Here's what they're doing different

...recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female

When a female turtle digs a nest on a beach, the temperature of the sand determines the sex of the hatchlings. Zirkelbach said an Australian study showed similar statistics — "99% of new sea turtle babies are female."

Why 99% of sea turtle babies are now born female, according to scientists