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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.20a50efe266c
An overpowering dome of hot air has entrenched itself over the Pacific Northwest and is primed to cook population centers like Seattle and Portland in record-crushing heat through Friday.
Excessive heat warnings blanket the western third of Northern California, Oregon and Washington state. High temperatures just inland from coastal locations are forecast to soar to between 100 and 110 degrees.
“We are talking about one of the major sustained heat waves in a long time around here,” writes Cliff Mass, professor of meteorology at the University of Washington. He said that “there is a lot of confidence” temperatures will at least reach the mid-90s in Seattle and notes the GFS model projects a high of 100 on Thursday — a reading he can’t “remember ever seeing”.
Wow! And they're not used to heat like that. The story says that only about a third of the homes in Seattle have air conditioning, and the city is setting up cooling stations where people can go to get some relief. That has got to be hard on the old folks and the little kids. They're hoping that smoke from British Columbia will help cool things down. Smoke from BC? Sound like the PNW is having one heck of a summer.
I hope that doesn't happen to you guys. I'm from Las Vegas and even we are suffering this year, and we're prepared for heatwaves. That kind of heat is no joke. Last summer was mild by comparison but over 90 area residents died of heat related causes. It's been over 110 more times this summer than I can remember.
Almost scary. We hit one of the hottest days of the year here. 81 degrees F. Hot here in the summer is high 70's. Further inland though it gets a lot hotter.
Calling for 106 here in southwest WA tomorrow. Temps around 100 aren't that uncommon. Just usually for a couple days not a couple weeks. But with the low humidity it's less oppressive here than a muggy day in the 80s in the Midwest/south. Plus it still cools down quickly to the 60s at night rather than keep on baking. But yeah we are glad our house has central a/c which is unusual. I'm ready for fall.
Yes, it's true, I'm on the Olympic Peninsula & for the past 2 days, the smoke from BC has been thick & the air is hot, was around 95 yesterday.
I know that doesn't sound crazy-hot...I grew up in the Mojave Desert of California, and that is HOT, often over 110F in summers...but here in northwest Washington, anything over 85 feels like 100...maybe it has something to do with the latitude.
Expect more drowning's as north westerners try to learn how to swim.
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