Ottawa: Canada prepares on Monday for the highest temperature that has ever been in the country and US Northwest baked in a hot wave that has never happened before, forcing the school and Covid vaccination clinic to close and delay Olympic qualification events.
Lytton Village in British Columbia has broken record for all time Canada, with a temperature of 46.6 ° C on Sunday.
The temperature has soared far above the seasonal average of the US Oregon state to the Canadian Arctic region, with worse warnings to come.
“This is a desert heat – very dry and hot,” David Phillips, a climatology for the Canadian environment, said.
“We are the second coldest country in the world.
We often see cold beans and snowstorms but we don’t often talk about hot weather like this.” On Sunday in Seattle, the state of Washington, the temperature reached 40 ° C, a record that surprised residents did not Accustomed to warmer climers.
The largest city in Oregon, Portland, hit 44.4 ° C on Sunday, said US national weather service, breaking the city record set a day before.
Hangus heat – which breaks the record in Canada and the US dating more than 80 years – has been blamed on “hot dome”, the back of high pressure trapped warm air in the region.