31.   Still, August retained the record for hottest month this century.

32.   The Dallas Cowboys have opted to spend part of the hottest month of the summer away from Texas.

33.   The holiday, called Songkran, arrives in the middle of the hottest month here, just before the annual monsoon rains arrive to cool things off.

34.   The team has said it wants to spend part of the hottest month of the summer away from Texas.

35.   The three-day festival culminating Thursday falls during the hottest month of the year in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia.

36.   Weathermen said May is the hottest month of the year in Bangladesh.

37.   On average, July and August are the hottest months in Morocco, when a Saharan depression produces a hot and dry continental air flow.

38.   October is the hottest month of the year.

39.   Sales of the fish, normally eaten basted with thick sauce and nestling in a bed of rice, peak in the hottest months.