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It may seem as if temperature records are being broken left and right, but for a temperature to break an all-time record - that’s in a league of its own. The most common type of records are daily records, that happens when a temperature for a specific day has never been recorded as that hot or cold. An all-time record is when a location has never recorded a temperature that hot or cold for any day, ever. An all-time record is much harder to break than a daily record.

There are several different types of all-time records, here are a few examples:

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It may not surprise you that Alaska holds the all-time coldest record for the U.S. They dropped to a temperature of -80 degrees on Jan. 23, 1971, in Prospect Creek, north of Fairbanks. Montana holds the coldest all-time record for the lower 48, with a jaw-dropping -70 degrees, which was set in 1954 at Rogers Pass. Hawaii is the only state to not have a sub zero all-time cold record.

MORE: All-time cold record temperatures in all 50 states.

As far as hot temperatures go, Death Valley is said to have recorded the hottest temperature not only in the U.S., but the hottest temperature on the planet at 134 degrees. Every state in the country has an all-time high temperature above 100 degrees.

More: All-time high temperatures in all 50 states

J​ennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades.