On a week where global temperatures broke record after record, much of United States wasn’t all that hot.

The Earth as a whole, however, was. Most days broke unofficial temperature records that experts have been tracking over decades. And there’s some who believe this week’s records would hold up if the data went back further — Possibly thousands of years into the past.

Although there’s some legitimate scientific questions surrounding the unofficial records, scientists say climate change is dramatically reshaping the world we live in and expect records to keep falling. The natural El Niño climate pattern also plays a major role in the warmth.

But for many people in the USA, the global headlines likely felt disconnected from their experience this week.

National Weather Service Data shows the nation was warm, but not scalding, over the past few days. A few areas saw high heat, but much of the country was just a few degrees above average. About a dozen states had regions of below average temperatures.

But the global heat records are another reminder of how vast and interconnected the Earth is as climate change effects pile up. Here’s what to know:

It was unusually hot in many places on Earth this week

Data from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition, shows the United States was not driving this week’s global heat records.