Russian media report that the temperature in parts of Western Siberia has soared to the highest level in almost a century.

Russia’s weather agency said in a news conference on Wednesday, local time, that the average temperature in Novosibirsk Oblast stood at 22-point-two degrees Celsius in July, which is higher than the previous record at 21-point-one degrees set in 1915.

Serious droughts are also plaguing the province as just one-point-five millimeters of rain fell in July, the lowest level of precipitation in 113 years.

The high temperatures and drought for the past two months have caused wild fires and a drop in crop yield.