This summer has been hot, like really scorchingly hot, not just in the US but around the globe.

In fact, in early July, the Earth reached the highest temperature ever recorded.

It's another sign of a changing climate.

Sometimes that change is felt as extreme heat and drought, and sometimes it comes as

unrelenting rainfall and flooding.

The Central American country of Honduras is experiencing all of it.

This is the Sunday story, I'm Aisha Roscoe, and today we're going on a journey to Honduras.

Migration has been on the rise in Honduras as people flee the extreme violence and poverty.

But my colleagues, correspondent Joel Rose and producer Marisa Pinyalosa wondered if climate

change is also affecting the decisions people make about whether to leave.

To try to answer that question, they got on a plane and flew to San Pedro Sula, the

second largest city in the country.

My memory of landing in San Pedro Sula is that everything was really green.

Because it was January and everything in North America is wintery and brown, and then

you land in San Pedro Sula, and suddenly it's like sunshine and plants everywhere and

it's humid, and the sun is hot on your skin.

From the second you step off the plane, you're in a different climate.

San Pedro Sula is the second largest city in Honduras, and it sits in the lowlands

on the Caribbean side.

But our destination was actually way up in the mountains in the Copan region.

That's near the Maya ruins in western Honduras.

Then we headed to a small town called Lagunas La Iguala to visit a family there.

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