Canada's all-time heat record broken: 49.6 degrees near Vancouver
Environment — di Andrea Barolini
From British Columbia to the Northwest Territories, heat in Canada has reached record levels. At least 134 “sudden” deaths reported.
Canada's all-time heat record broken: 49.6 degrees near Vancouver
From British Columbia to the Northwest Territories, heat in Canada has reached record levels. At least 134 “sudden” deaths reported.
Update 30 June – Western Canada is increasingly a furnace. A new record was broken on Tuesday 29 June in the Vancouver region, with a temperature of 49.6 degrees Celsius. Such levels had never been reached before in the North American nation.
The federal police announced that at least 134 people have died suddenly since last Friday in the region of the coastal metropolis. The local law enforcement spokesperson explained that "Vancouver has never experienced anything like this".
Update 29 June – The record that had been set in Canadian British Columbia has already been broken. The small town of Lytton, about three hours' drive from Vancouver, experienced another exceptional day, with the temperature reaching 47.9 degrees Celsius.
Through Sunday, according to the @NWS and @environmentca...
- At least 20 U.S. locations have tied or set all-time record highs, so far.
- At least 14 locations in western Canada have also done so.
We'll likely add to that.
Record recap, with oddities: weather.com/forecast/regio…
- At least 20 U.S. locations have tied or set all-time record highs, so far.
- At least 14 locations in western Canada have also done so.
We'll likely add to that.
Record recap, with oddities: weather.com/forecast/regio…
An exceptional heatwave has struck western Canada. British Columbia in particular has registered all-time records, with temperatures reaching as high as 46.6 degrees Celsius in the small town of Lytton, not far from Vancouver.
Canada's all-time record dated back to 5 July 1937
This is the absolute maximum for the North American nation: the previous record, 45 degrees, had been set in two cities in the province of Saskatchewan on 5 July 1937.
🇨🇦 Canada didn't just beat its long-standing all-time national heat record...
It knocked it out of the park by a staggering +1.6°C. This record wont even last 24 hours, the heatwave is just getting started.
It is only June. Annual highest temperature is normally in late July!
It knocked it out of the park by a staggering +1.6°C. This record wont even last 24 hours, the heatwave is just getting started.
It is only June. Annual highest temperature is normally in late July!
Environment Canada has issued warnings for various areas of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan itself, extending to the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. That is, right up to the Arctic region. "A prolonged, dangerous and historic heat wave will persist throughout the entire week," meteorologists explained, as reported by the international press. Temperatures will therefore remain consistently 10–15 degrees above the seasonal average.
The exceptional heatwave also strikes the United States
At the same time, electricity consumption has surged in Canada due to the intensive use of air conditioning systems. Similarly, in the United States meteorological services have spoken of a "dangerous heatwave" striking above all the federal states of Washington and Oregon, but also the North-East. The National Weather Service has announced it expects records to fall "daily, monthly and all-time".
Heatwave in Canada hits record 46.6C as US north-west also frazzles bbc.in/3h0k4RB
In Portland, for example, the temperature approached 44 degrees Celsius. As a result, the American trials for the Olympics athletics events, scheduled to be held in the city of Eugene (where temperatures reached 41 degrees), were also suspended.