"high temperature records" is correct and usable in written English.
For example: "The city set several high temperature records this summer."
High temperature records have been broken around the globe.
Numerous places across the northern tier of states set or tied their high temperature records for the month.
Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters, who wasn't involved in the study, said in the United States from June to August this year, blistering heat set 2,703 daily high temperature records, compared with only 300 cold records during that period, making it the hottest summer in the US since the Dust Bowl of 1936.
The warm weather, with daytime high temperatures close to 40 degrees above average in some places (high temperature records are outpacing cold records by a ratio of about 19-to-1 so far this March), set the stage for severe thunderstorms that spawned rare, damaging tornadoes near Detroit.
The southeast may break high temperature records in December.
July alone shattered two daytime high temperature records in just the D.C. area.
Overnight low temperatures were also extremely warm, and in a few cases the overnight low was so warm that it set a high temperature record, a rare feat.
"This new high temperature record confirms our previous interpretation that the pause was temporary and that global warming has not slowed," Richard Muller, scientific director of Berkeley Earth, said in a statement.
The city of Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan recorded a temperature of 53.5C, while in the United States, 200 cities broke their highest temperature records this summer.
High temperatures, record low humidity and erratic winds are still driving about 100 fires that have destroyed 150 houses along a 100-mile arc on the outskirts of Sydney.
High temperatures recorded in the BFR are consistent with recent results of biomarker thermal maturity (Savage et al. 2014).
