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Late summer heat wave causing problems for Canadians

September 22, 2017

Late summer heat wave causing problems for Canadians

Heat flows into eastern Canada

Thursday, September 21, 2017, 7:57 PM – While fall starts on Friday, the eastern half of the country has been greeted with summer-like heat, and it’s causing problems for Canadians.

The toasty weekend forecast was enough for organizers of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Oasis Montreal Marathon to cancel Sunday’s full marathon. The announcement was made on Wednesday after officials realized Sunday’s daytime high was not going to drop.

The seasonal average this time of year for Montreal typically sits around the 17 oC mark, but Sunday will feel closer to 37 with the humidity, all courtesy of a dominate ridge of high pressure.

“There’s real danger for participants, especially on the marathon side, after five, six hours of running,” Louis Malafarina, executive director of the race told CBC.

Approximately 5,000 people were signed up for the event, and it’s the first time in 27 years that organizers were forced to cancel, the news agency reports.

When the humidex reads over 28, the risk of heat-related illness rises significantly, Dr. François de Champlain, trauma team leader at the Montreal General Hospital told CBC.

According to de Champlain, over 1,000 runners visited the medical tent at the finish line in 2014 due to extreme heat.

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Participants signed up for the full marathon can still run the half on Sunday. In order to skip the peak of the heat, half-marathon runners are scheduled to start at 7:30 a.m., an hour earlier than usual. Runners will be given three hours to complete the race, CBC reports.

Meanwhile, some tenants living in apartment buildings in Toronto say despite the unseasonably warm weather, landlords are turning on the heat.

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Heatwave in Rio

January 20, 2015

Heatwave in Rio

Heatwave conditions have been affecting southeastern Brazil since the beginning of 2015. This comes after 2014 was declared the warmest, globally, since records began in 1880.

The findings from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) support earlier conclusions from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the UK Met Office.

The data confirms that 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have occurred since the turn of this century.

That 2014 was a record-breaker is rather surprising, considering that there was little or no sign of an El Nino – a warming of the surface layers of the Pacific, which would have added to the warming of the atmosphere.

The UK Met Office has predicted that 2015 is likely to be even warmer than 2014. If so, this would suggest an increase in the rate of warming which has been slower since 2000 than in the 1980s and 1990s.

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