The Pacific Northwest has begun sweltering under another heat wave, just over a month after record-shattering hot weather killed hundreds of the region’s most vulnerable people. Temperatures could exceed 110 degrees in Oregon before a weekend cool-down.
Temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit by mid-afternoon in Portland, Oregon. In a “worst-case scenario,” the temperature could reach as high as 111 F in some parts of western Oregon this week before a weekend cooldown, the National Weather Service said. It’s more likely temperatures will rise to 100 F or above for three consecutive days, peaking around 105 F on Thursday.
“We’ll often hear people say, ‘Who cares if it’s 106 or 108? It gets this hot in Arizona all the time.’ Well, people in Arizona have air conditioning, and here in the Pacific Northwest, a lot of people don’t,” Kranz said. “You can’t really compare us to the desert Southwest.” Emergency officials have sent alerts to phones, said Dan Douthit, spokesman for the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management.The back-to-back heat waves, coupled with a summer that’s been exceptionally warm and dry overall, are pummeling a region where summer highs usually drift into the 70s or 80s. Intense heat waves and aThe June heat in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia killed hundreds of people and served as a wake-up call for what’s ahead in a warming world.
This time, local and state officials have added more cooling centers and included a prompt in the call center voicemail.
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