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Scientists responded to long-range weather forecasts with disbelief roughly a week ago, said Larry O’Neill, Oregon state climatologist. “The initial reaction, because we’ve never seen it get that hot here, is that the models were really wrong,” he said. But the predictions didn’t change. And then they became a scorching reality. The Corvallis and Albany areas recorded their highest temperature ever when the thermostat reached 110 degrees on Sunday as part of an unprecedented heat wave hitting the Pacific Northwest, O’Neill said. “We shattered records statewide by a large margin. I’ve never seen it happen where so many records fell by so much,” he added.

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