at number two, the pacific northwest heat dome, which pushed the mercury and famously mild portland well over 100 degrees for days creating a mass casualty event of creatures great and small. over a billion shellfish baked to death on the shores of british columbia, and the little town of lytton broke the ka naldian heat record three times in a week before most of it burned to the ground. and at number one, america s megadrought. your water can come from rivers, reservoirs, or from wells all of which have been impacted by a 20-year megadrought fueled by the climate crisis with 90% of the west stampbing for rain. the feds declared the first-ever shortage of the colorado river, which is a source of life for over 40 million americans. meantime, smoke from western wildfires reached the east coast