Russia beats the odds: 1.5 in 100,000

From the folks at Climatecentral
Historical Perspective on the Russian Heat Wave of 2010

"Another way to say the same thing is to look at the probability of such extreme values or larger with respect to the bell curve. This probability turns out to be on the order of a one and a half chance in 100,000 for the July anomaly and one in a thousand for the June, July and August anomalies."http://climatecentral.org/breaking/blog/historical_perspective_on_the_russian_heat_wave_of_2010