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Red bars show the percent of the U.S. Southwest (Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico) having extremely warm days--daytime high temperatures in the top ten percent of the historical record--each summer since 1910. The footprint of extreme heat in the Southwest has exploded in the past 30 years. NOAA Climate.gov graph, based on data from NCEI's Climate Extremes Index.