![]() To be clear, tying a single heat wave to climate change involves extended study. It’s if the region is prepared for this kind of anomalous heat to become a regular thing. (This weekend’s heat event was also significantly different, meteorologically speaking).īut the question isn’t if the Pacific Northwest’s recent heat was its hottest ever. Some national news outlets correctly pointed out this heat wave is significantly cooler than the June 2021 “heat dome” that pushed temperatures to 116 degrees in Portland and 121 degrees in Lytton, British Columbia - an extreme weather event that killed an estimated 1,400 people in the U.S. ![]() Over the border in British Columbia, the city of Squamish hit what appears to be the blistering max of this particular heat wave: 96 degrees. Portland, Oregon, endured three straight days of 90-degree temperatures - more consecutive 90-degree days than Dallas, Texas, has seen this year, NBC News reports. But it had been a doozy getting here: Some 12 million people in Washington and Oregon were under a heat advisory over the weekend as temperatures in the region topped out at more than 20 degrees above the normal high this time of year, which should be in the mid-60s. Tuesday offered the first day of relative relief for the Pacific Northwest after four consecutive days of record-breaking spring heat (bless you, “deepening marine influence”). ![]() Because, as every Seattle kid knows, summer reliably doesn’t start in the Pacific Northwest until July 5. Every year around mid-June, when the last-day-of-school festivities were over, you still had to wait weeks before it would be warm enough to break out the Otter Pops or go swimming in the lake. The worst thing about growing up in Seattle was that school would get out before summer actually started.
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