New Delhi: Most West America has been blown up with hot heat this week with a double-digit temperature, recording a record before the summer.
The temperature at the US Pacific North Cities of Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington reached a level that was not seen since the recording began in the 1940s: 115 degrees in Portland and 108 in Seattle, according to national weather services.
Lytton in British Columbia broke the record Monday as high as Canadian, with a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (47.9 degrees Celsius), only one day after the village set a previous record at 116 degrees.
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The burning heat was blamed on a high-pressure hill back trapping warm air in the region.
The hot dome raises a concern for “serious” health as the last last heat wave in Canada left nearly 70 people dead in 2018.
Extreme heat, combined with intense drought, creating perfect conditions for some fires to break on weekends, and one flame On the California-Oregon border has burned around 600 hectares (1,500 hectares) on Monday morning.
In Canada, shops are sold out of portable air conditioners and fans, while the city opens the emergency cooling center.
Some canceled Covid-19 vaccination clinics and schools have been closed.
The Canadian environment issued a warning for British Columbia, Alberta, and part of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, and the northwest region, by saying “Prolonged, dangerous and historic heataves will last until this week.” Do climate change responsible for the hot dome? Climate change causes the temperature of the record setting to become more frequent.
Globally, the decade until 2019 is the hottest recorded, and the hottest five years all have occurred in the past five years.
Nick Bond, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, said the strange weather program was not entirely due to climate change but was exacerbated by him.
“Climate change is a factor here, but surely the secondary,” he said.
(With input from agency)