Can North Texas expect a heat wave like the one that broiled the Pacific Northwest?
Can North Texas expect a heat wave like the one that broiled the Pacific Northwest?
Our region is no stranger to extremely high temperatures, but the patterns that drive weather here tend to differ from the one that parked itself out West.
An Aug. 24, 2011, file photo of the downtown Dallas skyline.(Joel Prince / Staff Photographer)
7:06 PM on Jul 2, 2021 CDT
In recent days, the Pacific Northwest has been beset by a heat wave that the National Weather Service called unprecedented and historic.
With temperatures soaring into the 110s in places, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia have amassed hundreds of heat-related deaths,