{"id":58582,"date":"2021-07-13T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58582"},"modified":"2021-07-13T06:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:51:02","slug":"scientists-call-northwest-heatwave-the-most-extreme-in-world-weather-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58582","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the &#8216;Most Extreme in World Weather Records&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"position-relative w-100 pt-0\">\n<section class=\"overflow-hidden article__header-image\">\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"headline__field-article-img\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"image__field-media-image d-flex justify-content-center article__media--image\">\n<div><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/banner_image_1x_xl\/public\/2021-07\/GettyImages-1233763271%281%29.jpg?h=3a014bac&amp;itok=NhSWY0Fy\" alt=\"Wildfires rage amid a devastating heatwave in the Pacific Northwest\" width=\"1280\" height=\"462\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"container content\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-7 mx-auto\">\n<div class=\"text-tiny leading-tight tracking-tight pt-3\">\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"headline__field-main-caption\">\n<p>Flames surround the drought-stricken Shasta Lake in Lakehead, California on July 2, 2021. (Photo: Josh Edelson\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container pb-5 pt-4\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"float-left d-print-none d-flex justify-content-center col-md-2\">\n<div class=\"block\">\n<aside class=\"py-lg-5 mt-lg-n5 sticky-top d-flex flex-column justify-content-center align-items-center article__actions\">\n<div class=\"pt-5\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-lg-7 mx-auto\">\n<h3 id=\"node-title\" class=\"mb-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/07\/02\/scientists-call-northwest-heatwave-most-extreme-world-weather-records\">Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the &#8216;Most Extreme in World Weather Records&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"headline__field-subtitle text-lg tracking-tighter leading-tightest\"><strong>&#8220;Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"block\">\n<div class=\"headline__body prose node__body\">\n<p><strong>A pair of climate<\/strong>\u00a0scientists on Thursday said the record-high temperatures that have ravaged the northwestern U.S. and western Canada over the past week\u2014killing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/07\/01\/horrifying-record-breaking-northwest-heatwave-linked-hundreds-deaths\">hundreds<\/a>\u00a0and sparking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/01\/1012061776\/the-deadly-heat-wave-is-triggering-dozens-of-wildfires-in-western-canada\">dozens<\/a>\u00a0of wildfires\u2014represent the &#8220;world&#8217;s most extreme heatwave in modern history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not hype or exaggeration to call the past week&#8217;s heatwave the most extreme in world weather records.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Bob Henson, Jeff Masters<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the past week&#8217;s historic heatwave in western North America,&#8221; meteorologist Bob Henson and former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane scientist Jeff Masters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yaleclimateconnections.org\/2021\/07\/western-canada-burns-and-deaths-mount-after-worlds-most-extreme-heat-wave-in-modern-history\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<em>Yale Climate Connections<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not hype or exaggeration to call the past week&#8217;s heatwave the most extreme in world weather records,&#8221; they argued. &#8220;The only heatwave that compares is the great Dust Bowl heatwave of July 1936 in the U.S. Midwest and south-central Canada. But even that cannot compare to what happened in the Northwest U.S. and western Canada over the past week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In British Columbia, the chief coroner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/canada-heat-waves-science-health-government-and-politics-ea770a153d84b8774190a96affe2c2e3\">said<\/a>\u00a0her office has received nearly 500 reports of &#8220;sudden and unexpected&#8221; deaths since last Friday, many of which are believed to be connected to the record temperatures that the region has suffered in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the small British Columbia village of Lytton\u2014which on Tuesday recorded Canada&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/climate-emergency-dozens-sudden-deaths-reported-canada-heat-hits-record-121degf\">all-time high temperature<\/a>\u00a0of 121\u00b0F\u2014were forced to evacuate Wednesday as a wildfire ripped through the area and quickly engulfed the small town, destroying homes and buildings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flames surround the drought-stricken Shasta Lake in Lakehead, California on July 2, 2021. (Photo: Josh Edelson\/AFP via Getty Images) Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the &#8216;Most Extreme in World Weather Records&#8217; &#8220;Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin.&#8221; A pair of climate\u00a0scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31438,141,7669,288,2746,21226,31439,1164],"class_list":["post-58582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bob-henson","tag-climate-change","tag-common-dreams","tag-extreme-weather","tag-heat-wave","tag-jake-johnson","tag-jeff-masters","tag-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58583,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58582\/revisions\/58583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}