Posted on 06/27/2021 9:50:19 AM PDT by blam
Oregon's largest city broke its all-time heat record on Saturday. It could beat the new mark on Sunday.
Forecasters say many Pacific Northwest communities may sweat through the hottest days in their histories as temperatures soar during a heat wave that has sent residents scrambling for relief.
Stores sold out of portable air conditioners and fans, hospitals canceled outdoor vaccination clinics, cities opened cooling centers, baseball teams canceled or moved up weekend games, and utilities braced for possible power outages.
Portland, Oregon, reached 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 degrees Celsius) Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The previous heat record for Oregon’s largest city was 107 F (41.7 C), a mark hit in 1965 and 1981.
Seattle reached 101 F (38.3 C) Saturday, making it the hottest June day on record and only the fourth time in recorded history the usually temperate city had topped 100 degrees.
The forecast was for even hotter temperatures on Sunday and Monday. Many all-time heat records could be broken. In Seattle, the highest temperature ever measured was 103 F (39.4 C), in 2009.
Other cities and towns from eastern Washington state to Portland to southern Oregon were also expected to break records, with temperatures in many areas likely to top out 30 degrees or more above normal.
That's dangerous for a region accustomed to mild weather, and where many don't have air conditioning.
The extended “heat dome” over the Pacific Northwest was a taste of the future as climate change reshapes weather patterns worldwide, said Kristie Ebi, a professor at the University of Washington who studies global warming and its effects on public health.
“We know from evidence around the world that climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity and duration of heat waves. We’re going to have to get used to this
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The leftists in CA,WA & OR throw in “climate change.”
Sounds like time for another Gay Pride Parade to appease the gods.
It’s warm but not the warmest. Something is exaggerating.
I’m enjoying it, swimming, in and out of the shade.
Just a taste of what Hell will be like for Portland Marxist Antifa and BLM.
The same people who tell you that record cold does not disprove climate change will now tell you record heat does.
It’s actually quite remarkable. Usually Ca gets the brunt of heatwaves and the Pacific NW the peripheral effects. This is the opposite: Forecast high here in Placer County east of Sacramento today is 98. The NW is getting the brunt, and we the periphery. I watch weather carefully and don’t recall seeing this flipping before. Must be climate change. We should abolish capitalism /s
Excessive heat in regions not normally subject to it, severe drought, pestilence, lawlessness, grasshopper invasions, sexual perversions, rebellions against authority, attacks on Biblical principles, etc...
Sounds like a proportional relationship between cause and effects, curses vs blessings.
It hit 102ﾟ yesterday where I was. Today, it’s supposed to hit 109ﾟ. I’m out working in it. Granted, I’m in an air conditioned car, so that helps.
Gosh, where I live in NC it is chilly at night and comfortable in daytime.
However, this is a cool summer season.
We broke 100 degrees here yesterday, Southern Puget Sound - the garden and shrubs don’t like it, lots of watering but I want to thank Willis H. Carrier, the father of air conditioning - who, by the way was a White Man.
Climate change may very well be what we are witnessing. The earth has cyclical change. But the leftists want to believe that it’s due to man and that man can actually stop it. That’s the part that is the problem.
“previous heat record for Oregon’s largest city was 107 F, a mark hit in 1965 and 1981.”
It got that hot in 1965 and 1981 but NOW it is “climate change.”
“only the fourth time in recorded history the usually temperate city had topped 100 degrees.”
It got that hot FOUR other times but NOW it is “climate change.”
Mental illness in the Land of Prog is a vast wasteland of hellish “facts of the week.”
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Thank you for your common sense in this matter.
Went to the river yesterday, was very hot. I have a broken rib from chasing down a runaway herd the day before, but still managed to get out in the fast current and enjoy the cool down.
Wow - who knew that a natural-born racist could do such a great thing for humanity. /s
Plague! Pestilence! Famine!
AAAAAAGGGH! We’re all gonna die!
Gee...two years ago California had the most rainfall / snowfall totals in decades. The spin on that was “climate change will result in intensifying events”. No physical rationale or proof for such statements were offered, because there aren’t any.
Anyone who’s been on the planet longer then the average millennial idiot has seen the same cycles over and over. Records are made and fall all the time. It’s really no different now then in the summer of ‘71, 50 years ago.
Couldn't happen again in a 1000 years!
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Yep! The morons act as though the sun has nothing to do with it. 🙄
“It got that hot in 1965 and 1981 but NOW it is “climate change.” “
And it got that hot one day 4000 years ago when some Kalapuya tribe was bangin’ around trying to find fish to eat. Oh Wait! No! It was hot cuz they were driving early model Dodge pickup trucks spewing nasties! Yea! That’s it!
Oh NOES! The climate was CHANGING!
Yeah right.
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