That said, portlands previous record was set yesterday. And before yesterday, the previous record was set the day before that. Today should hopefully have been the worst of it in the pacific northwest. But its Quite bad, Emergency Rooms filling up with people sick and struggling from the heat. They have been opening Cooling Centers in towns all around the region, trying to give people a place to go to get away from the heat. They have been shooting water at the drawbridges in seattle to keep them from getting stuck as the metal expands beyond anything it was ever expected to deal with before. They shut down some lanes on Interstate 5 because the heat caused concrete panels on that freeway to just crumble, just turn to dust. East of bellingham, washington, and up against the canadian border, the roads there are just buckling, just falling apart and kind of melting in the heat, collapsing. Tonight, a bunch of young people were arrested at various entrances to the White House, these are a
Im chris. Asean was 115 Degrees Fahrenheit in portland oregon. Breaking Yesterdays Record of 112 degrees. To state the obvious, it should not be 150 degrees in portland, normal high temperature at this time of year in the city, are below the mid seventies this is not just happening in portland as you may have seen organs, Capital City of salem also reach 114 degrees seattle washington Got A record breaking 107 Degrees Today and the weather across the Pacific Northwest of the United States is downright dystopian right now. Its something out of a climate Science Fiction Novel but a peek into our climate future that has now made present. All this is happening because a phenomenon called heat dome. High pressure in the atmosphere traps hot Ocean Air Kind of like ali and. He domes are not uncommon in the summer, they come for Heat Waves. This one is incredibly intense and vast. The kind of extreme Weather Event that Climate Change is making more and more common. The national Weather Service
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