An event of this extremity would have been virtually impossible in the past, said co-author Sarah Kew of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. But we are going to be seeing more intense and more frequent heat waves in the future.
The end of June and early July saw unheard-of temperatures across B.C. and Alberta. The community of Lytton, B.C., reached nearly 50 C and was engulfed days later by a wildfire.
During the heat, sudden and unexpected deaths tripled in B.C. to 719 and weather is believed to have been a significant contributor. We ve never seen a jump in record temperature like the one in this heat wave, said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of Oxford University. These are incredibly high temperatures for these fairly temperate regions.
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