![]() Portland, Oregon, broke its longstanding all-time record high (107degF from 19) on three days in a row-a stunning feat for any all-time record-with highs of 108degF on Saturday, June 26 112degF on Sunday and 116degF on Monday.To emphasize the "extremity of this event," Henson and Masters highlighted just some of the temperature records that have fallen in Canada and the United States since late last week. ![]() This is a literal firestorm, producing *thousands* of lightning strikes and almost certainly countless new fires. ![]() “I've watched a lot of wildfire-associated pyroconvective events during the satellite era, and I think this might be the singularly most extreme I've ever seen. "Our community members have lost everything." "Our poor little town of Lytton is gone," Edith Loring-Kuhanga, an administrator at a local school, wrote in a Facebook post. Residents of the small British Columbia village of Lytton-which on Tuesday recorded Canada's all-time high temperature of 121degF-were forced to evacuate Wednesday as a wildfire ripped through the area and quickly engulfed the small town, destroying homes and buildings. In British Columbia, the chief coroner said her office has received nearly 500 reports of "sudden and unexpected" deaths since last Friday, many of which are believed to be connected to the record temperatures that the region has suffered in recent days. But even that cannot compare to what happened in the Northwest U.S. "The only heatwave that compares is the great Dust Bowl heatwave of July 1936 in the U.S. "It's not hype or exaggeration to call the past week's heatwave the most extreme in world weather records," they argued. "Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the past week's historic heatwave in western North America," meteorologist Bob Henson and former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane scientist Jeff Masters wrote for Yale Climate Connections. "It's not hype or exaggeration to call the past week's heatwave the most extreme in world weather records." and western Canada over the past week-killing hundreds and sparking dozens of wildfires-represent the "world's most extreme heatwave in modern history." A pair of climate scientists on Thursday said the record-high temperatures that have ravaged the northwestern U.S. ![]()
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