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Warm streak for Seattle ends at 29 days, dry streak continues July 16, 2021 at 4:34 pm
A group of kayakers shares space with a pair of ducks near the Hiram M. Chittenden Ballard Locks, Wednesday, June 30, 2021, under sunny skies in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
The Seattle area had two streaks going for weather in recent weeks, one for a dry stretch, and the other for consecutive days with highs above 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
KIRO 7 meteorologist Morgan Palmer confirmed on Friday that the Seattle area has gone 32 days without measurable rain.
“This is the longest dry streak since the record-breaking 55 days without rain in the summer of 2017,” Palmer said.
Hundreds of people die across Pacific Northwest and Canada with at least 79 dead in Oregon alone after catastrophic heatwave during which temperatures hit 115F
Hundreds of people are feared to have died during record-breaking temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada
Officials set up cooling centers, distributed water to the homeless and took other steps as mercury climbed as high as 115F in Seattle and Portland
The death toll in the state of Oregon reached 79 while in Canada, British Columbia there were reports of at least 486 sudden and unexpected deaths
In Oregon s Multnomah County, the oldest person to die was 97 and the youngest 44
It's been 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre: From May 31 to June 1, 1921, a giant mob of white supremacists—some deputized by city officials—looted and burned down the Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, OK. Known as Black Wall Street because of its prosperity, somewhere from 100 to 300 people were killed during the siege. Historians estimate that over 1,200 homes and businesses were completely destroyed, reports NPR. News about the massacre was.