Hasnain says:

These weather events are absolutely insane - if I read this right Portland is hotter than most of the world except Death Valley and parts of the Sahara.

Especially given the lack of AC and building designs not accounting for this and how unprecedented this is, I’m sure people will die.

“The strength of the heat dome, or sprawling zone of high pressure centered near the U.S.-Canada border, promoting these temperatures is simply off the charts. Its intensity is so statistically rare that it might be expected only once every several thousand years on average. But man-made climate change has made exceptional events like this many times more probable.”

Posted on 2021-06-28T06:54:10+0000