Pacific Northwest heat wave peaks Monday with temperatures 50 degrees above average

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Pacific Northwest heat wave peaks Monday with temperatures 50 degrees above average

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Updated 2 hours ago - Energy & Environment
Pacific Northwest heat wave reaches astonishing peak on Monday


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Andrew Freedman
Map showing red colors indicating much hotter than normal conditions across the Pacific Northwest on June 27, 2021.

Map showing much hotter than normal conditions across the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia on June 27. Credit: Weathermodels.com

The extraordinary heat wave that's stifling the Pacific Northwest reached its peak in many areas on Monday. Seattle smashed its all-time high-temperature record, set just the day before, by 4°F.

Why it matters: After two days of oppressive heat and little relief at night, the extreme weather event, boosted by global warming, is moving into a more dangerous phase.

Heat illness tends to spike the longer heat waves last, and extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer each year in the U.S.

Driving the news: A highly unusual weather pattern that statistically has less than a 1-in-several-thousand-year chance of occurring is in place over the Pacific Northwest, with a record-strong high-pressure area aloft — colloquially known as a "heat dome" — sitting over Washington state and British Columbia.

This heat dome is yielding temperatures 25–50°F above average across multiple states and British Columbia.........................................

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[SheltieLover]

1. Pavement is buckling

On Interstate 5.

Cables are melting in Portland.

Horrible!

Stay safe, all!

[appalachiablue]

2. Horrible, inferno in the PNW

My heart aches for all..

[msongs]

3. must be doing quite a hit job on the snowpack nt

[BigmanPigman]

4. The lowest graphic looks like the roads that are

misshapen by the intense heat. They are spraying bridges with water to cool them and keep them from buckling. The only cool place is in an inner tube on the ocean shoreline.

This is a "once in 1,000 year" occurance. Sure. They used to say that about hurricanes and freezing/heating temps. Now instead of saying "once in a 100 years" to "once in a generation", to "once in a decade" soon it will be compared to the "last year's" worst storms, heat, freezing, etc.

[Probatim]

7. Several years ago Texas had multiple "once in 500 year" rain storms.

I'm not a statistician, but something tells me when you have multiple events like that, something is off with the climate.

[ZZenith]

5. Someday soon enough Dallas will hit 130 degrees.

Wonder if that will be enough to get the attention of those who think they need 10,000 pounds of steel to transport 10 pounds of groceries.

[flying_wahini]

6. I saw somewhere that DFW average temperature in August will be 120* in another 10 years.

Can’t substantiate that, but it was a lot closer than I thought.