‘To have five-day stretches or a week-long stretch above 90 degrees is very, very rare for the Pacific north-west,’ expert warns
under excessive heat warnings. In Seattle, temperatures could hit the 90s . Further inland, the eastern regions of the states could reach 110F .
The heatwave comes as the climate crisis fuels extreme weather across the world. A deadly heat dome in the region last summer brought record temperatures and killed about 900 people in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Most of Oregon’s deaths were concentrated in Portland, which reached an all-time high of 116F . Afound that the occurrence of that heatwave would have been nearly impossible without human-caused climate change.
“It’s nothing we haven’t seen before in terms of the magnitude, but the duration of the event is fairly unusual,” said John Bumgardner, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Portland.in Portland will not turn away anyone headed to a cooling center and cannot pay their fare. Jenny Carver, Multnomah county’s emergency manager for the department of county human services, said her work had focused on ensuring that cooling centers are “as low-barrier as we can make them”.
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