© REUTERSPeople sleep at a cooling shelter set up during an unprecedented heat wave in Portland, Oregon
Hotspot Lytton in British Columbia -- about 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Vancouver -- broke the record "for Canada's all time maximum high" with a temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius (116 Fahrenheit), said Environment Canada.
More than 40 new temperature highs were recorded throughout the province over the weekend, including in the ski resort town of Whistler. And the high-pressure ridge trapping warm air in the region is expected to continue breaking more records throughout the week.
Environment Canada issued alerts for British Columbia, Alberta, and parts of Saskatchewan, Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
"A prolonged, dangerous, and historic heat wave will persist through this week," it said, forecasting temperatures near 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in several regions, or 10-15 degrees Celsius hotter than normal.
The US National Weather Service issued a similar warning about a "dangerous heat wave" that could see record temperatures rise to more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal in parts of Washington and Oregon states.
"The historic Northwest heat wave will continue through much of the upcoming week, with numerous daily, monthly and even all time records likely to be set," it said in a statement.
Monday is expected to be the hottest day in big cities such as Seattle and Portland, with all-time record highs likely in both cities.
The highest temperature previously recorded in Canada was 45 degrees Celsius in two towns in southeastern Saskatchewan in July 1937.
"I like to break a record, but this is like shattering and pulverising them," Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips told broadcaster CTV
"It's warmer in parts of western Canada than in Dubai."
Wildfire risks are elevated, and water levels in lakes and rivers are lower.
Stores reportedly sold out of portable air conditioners and fans, while cities opened emergency cooling centers and outreach workers took to the streets to hand out bottles of water and hats.
Several Covid-19 vaccination clinics were cancelled and schools announced they would close on Monday.
The British Columbia power utility, meanwhile, said electricity demand has soared to record levels as residents sought to keep cool.
AFP
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a fair bit of information on the internet mentions haarp causing earth quakes and other weather events, but some of this information doesn't smell right... something just seems off they way it's described, and sorry i don't have a link, but you can find plenty out there.
now, directed energy weapons seem focusable, either airborne or from low orbit, but haarp uses a wide array of antennae to heat up layers of the ionosphere, bouncing energy off these layers ... more of a wide / large area effect... for say, altering the frequency of the ground or air, subtly, as in messing with the natural cognitive frequency of a population, allowing the population to absorb whatever information is being bombarded at them ... in other words, it's a mind control device. weather manipulator maybe, though i'll put my money on brain scrambler first.
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Some people are suggesting that HAARP is going to be used with the 5G to do some magic stuff inside the bodies of the vaccinated. Soon we will know how all this is going to end. I don't get a good feeling about it.
By the way, I don't mind the heat. I used to live in Kelowna and Penticton and am used to extreme temperatures. I wish global warming was real.
swords work great in hollywood movies, but not in cqb; a hockey stick has more potential than a sword, i kid you not.
haarp may play a role in 5g, although elon and his gang have been launching satelites for some time now.
the 5g toasters, street lights, traffic lights, cell phones ... you name it ... all coming soon to a town near you, lol.
how "what" is going to end ? the planet / you / civilization ?
why sweat it earthwatcher ?
we are all here for a good time, not a long time, isn't that how the song goes ?
it's all part of the learning adventure: truth, life, and the creator or ... self preservation, self-gratification, and self-definition ?
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it's like a sauna tonight in central ontario, i'd rather be skiing, but i'm happy
if it was possible to compile a chart of the sott commenters i am absolutely certain that the chart, when compared with a random and equal sample number of non-sott readers in the general population, would show that most sott commentors have had some sort of traumatic event, accident, or illness that was life threatening, yet for some reason didn't pass on, something kept them here. why ?
nature speaks not with man's language, alphabets, or signs, but in her language, her signs.
nature chooses who she will teach, not the other way around.
guess what my friend, those mountains - that's where she has chosen for you to learn; it's her classroom.
the universe speaks to us in peculiar ways. to paraphrase the C's, " one can't see the veins on a leaf when driving down the road looking at the trees ".
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Remember the book, The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck? In it he recited all of the instances that many people have where they should have, by all logic, died, but did not. It's in the chapter called Grace.
RC
*NOT all of the times that someone caught a stoplight, (or did not) and should have killed me at the next intersection, nor every large shark beneath me I never saw that looked at my leg but thought, "No! I'm trying to watch my weight." etc.
rc
yes, i too, have a list of stoplights and sharks (well, not literally, but you get the picture) that you would find eye widening !
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R.C.
What a crock.
It's stinking hot up here in Central Alberta and is due to stay that way until late Thursday...when it will probably snow. LOL!!!
46.6C = 115.88 farenheit
40C = 104 farenheit (which is about the hottest weather I've experienced).
R.C
OK, that's all folks, gotta go watch the Habs kick some Lightening ass.
It IS genetic. As a kid here, on the few days we had cold fronts go through, I still open my windows for the cold to where you can see your breath in my room. Also did it a lot on ski trips - immune to getting cold. See the AB. I've
My heritage is Scottish German American Mutt mix, It surely is mostly genetics for since 1965, and I've always hated the heat down here.
I believe it also has something to do with the fact that a 'normal' temperature for me is 96.7. If I'm at 98.6 I'm sick as a dog.
RC