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Extreme Heatwave Is Sizzling The US And Canada And Here Are 31 Pics To Show How Insane It Is
This year has been surprising everyone with some extreme weather conditions. It seems that Texas was just recently frozen into its coldest temperatures ever and residents had icicles hanging from their ceiling fans. Right now, the Pacific Northwest of the US and British Columbia, Canada are getting baked under a dome of once-in-a-millennium hot temperatures. The heat was as high as 115F in Medford and 107F in Portland, both in Oregon; meanwhile, Lytton, BC registered a high of 116F—a temperature that has not been seen in the region since the beginning of records.
Such temperatures are extremely dangerous in the parts of US and Canada where the general highs are usually not exceeding 60-70 degrees. Many people are unprepared for such a climate, as even air conditioning is not a common appliance in their homes. However scary the historic heatwave may be, people are still out there to report and share what it’s like to experience (and survive) such an extremity, and some of them are actually too funny.
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#1
My Parents Live Outside Of Seattle And Set Up A “Pool” For Their Resident Raccoon. I Think She Appreciated It
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#2
Dad Made Me A Pool To Beat The Heat!!!!
#3
Wife And I When We Bought Our House: “Omg The Skylights! We’ll Have So Much Natural Light!” Today: “Omg How Make Stop Heat Rays Of Death”
#4
104 Degrees In The Shade In Our Barn . Doing Our Best
#5
Looks Like My Candles Need The Blue Pill
Isabel Care 3 years ago
Mine did this when I lived in my parents' attic. Great for drying out camping stuff.
#6
Might Have Out-Rednecked Ourselves This Time
#7
Here's How Hot It Is In Portland Right Now, This Is My Neighbor's House And The Vinyl Siding Is Blistering Off His House Under The Sun In The 108 Degree Heat
ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago
there's something wrong with that siding...where i live it hovers between 105 and 110 for almost 3 months a year in summer and i've never seen this
#8
I Kept On Hearing Strange Popping Noises. Looked Outside And...
#9
Behold
Hilary Mol 3 years ago
Ah, summer heat waves - you look forward to the days when you can cook a slow breakfast on the deck. No, really. Literally on the deck.
#10
My Ac Exploded On A Recording Breaking Heat Wave In Oregon
Confused koala 3 years ago
While in Texas it normally reaches 90 a day and we have got a week of snow this year and is not reaching past 85
#11
Got So Hot In Portland Today That Denver St Buckled
#12
Before And After Of My Hydrangeas In The Portland Heat Wave. Goodnight, Sweet Prince
#13
Having To Use All My Fans And Constant Ice Packs Just To Keep My Fish From Cooking In The Heat Wave...
#14
Its Not That Hot
Ray Carrillo 3 years ago
That fits, the city of Yakima was like 109 degrees climbing to 114 degrees today. I lived there over 30 years and never saw it much above 105.
#15
Try To Find Shady Areas Or Grass If You Need To Take Your Pets Out
#16
State Route 544 Milepost 7 Near Everson, Wa Is Currently Closed. The Asphalt Roadway Is Buckling And Unsafe For Travel
#17
In Case You're Wondering Why We're Canceling Service For The Day, Here's What The Heat Is Doing To Our Power Cables
M O'Connell 3 years ago
That cable was clearly chafing against the threaded rod, that's the fault of the installer more than the heat.
#18
It’s So Hot In Portland My Uncle And I Filled His Skateboarding Bowl With Hose Water
Getthepopcornout 3 years ago
In the UK if it gets this hot (never gets this hot but 30 °C plus) we tend to have hosepipe bans, does this not happen in America?
#19
Snow Melt From Excessive Heat In Bc
#20
Multitasking At The IKEA Lot
#21
We’re At Kate’s Ice Cream In Ne Portland. This Walk-In Freezer Is Supposed To Sit At Temperatures Around -10
M O'Connell 3 years ago
It's probably cycling off via the high pressure control. For the sake of your product, you can put a water mist on the condenser to bring the pressure down.
#22
Psa. If You Park Under Or Will Be Parking Under Train Tracks, Tar Is Melting Off Of Them And It’s Not Fun To Clean Off
Emma Perkins 3 years ago
Wipe it off while it's still hot, else you just have to accept your new spotty paint job
#23
The Heat Cooked My Roses!
#24
Two Windows In The Master. Two Ac Units. Goodnight Cruel Sauna- I Mean, Seattle
M O'Connell 3 years ago
The portable AC units are your problem. They are the least efficient means of air conditioning, to the point where you would be better off without. They draw conditioned air from the room to cool the condenser coil and then blow it outside, pulling warm air in from elsewhere!
#25
The Heat Wave Hitting Bc Is Reeking Havoc On My Toy Room. Things Are Warping/Bending And Figure Joints Seem To Be Getting Loose And Making Stuff Fall Over
#26
Fans Are Bit The Only Thing Seattle Stores Have Sold Out Of During The Heat Wave. Good Luck Trying To Get Ice Cream
iblowsheep 3 years ago
"what would you doooo for a Klondike bar?" Apparently wait until all other options are exhausted.
#27
Target In Hollywood District Can’t Keep Up With The Heat. Don’t Expect To Get Anything Cold Here
Lauren Moore 3 years ago
So, I'm in central Texas. Triple digits are the norm in summer. I understand that people up here aren't used to the heat, just like when we get a hard freeze in Texas and all the schools close. But do large supermarkets like this not have Air Conditioning??
#28
Seattle Grocery Stores In A Heat Wave Just As Bad As Before A Snow Storm!
GoGo LaTata 3 years ago
The food was actually just moved because the open front coolers were not keeping the food cold.
#29
Took Advantage Of Today's Heat To Bake Cookies In My Car
Random Person 3 years ago
no way this worked...that pan would have to get up to at least 250º F
#30
Just Got Back From A Couple Nights Of Camping To Try To Avoid Some Of The Heat And...i Guess We Need To Add A Mark For 40 On The Thermostat?
#31
Final Results To The Egg-Speriment: 45 Minute Slow Cook.. Added The Egg To Avocado Toast. Fire Did Not End Up Eating But It Sure Looked Tasty!
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
A lot of these people who are complaining about the unbearable heat, also deny climate change. So what's it going to be? Live with the unbearable heat or start pushing the politicians to be more active in preserving nature and promoting eco-friendly regulations. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the UN, heatwaves will last longer and kill more people and animals each year. Within the next 30 years the entire globe will have progressed more into becoming a complete desert. And this trend has been going on for quite some time now.
Ivana 3 years ago
But wait, we must protect the low income jobs. If we regulate corporations and enforce Eco-friendly regulations, then just think about all the low income jobs that will be lost. Sure it is nothing in comparison to the damage to your personal property or the environment, and sure investing in green energy and industry will create thousands of well paying jobs, but is it really worth it if that means that the CEOs of oil companies have to sell one of their vacation homes?
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Ivana 3 years ago
Climate change is going to keep costing us more and more every year. You live in Texas and your pipes burst and the ceiling caves in. Live up North and a heat wave strikes when nothing you own is built for that sort of weather. Every time you buy the cheap plastic option you think you are saving money but when a hurricane hits your house for the 4th year in a row it is time to start thinking about our over consumption a disposable goods and also to start getting pretty serious about regulating corporations and their energy consumption.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
1:15pm in New England, and it's 100º outside. We generally don't get much higher than the lower 90ºs. Also, July and August are usually appreciably hotter than June here, so...
SirPatTheCat 3 years ago
Anyone know if it cools down at night? The area I live in is basically a desert, and it regularly gets to 110 in the summer, but we can open windows at night to cool off the house. (Also obviously our infrastructure is built to withstand the heat, so we usually don't have issues with things melting, ac not being high enough, etc)
Courtney 3 years ago
I'm in Seattle and it does not cool down. It was still close to 100 degrees at 10pm last night. I used to live in El Paso, Tx which is all desert and it would cool down at least 20 degrees by 8pm, it makes a HUGE difference because you can bear it during the day. But this is unbearable.
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Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
The Vancouver BC area is a temperate rainforest climate. This is not the type of temperatures we see on a normal basis and the humidex was so high that it was making things feel hotter. So it was 109F in my town "feeling like 122F" Air conditioners are not the default and many places were struggling to keep up. My work AC was on, but at the peak yesterday, it couldn't keep my store cooler than 80F. :(
Gracie Jay 3 years ago
While I feel for them, Oklahoma just came out of a heat wave but we’ve had unseasonably cooler weather here with the high for the next 7 day only at 85 f. So I’m livin it up while it lasts:) it is crazy muggy tho, humidity at 82%.
sharron lynn parsons 3 years ago
Climate change has been ignored, far too long, it's a little late, for massive change, hope it's not too late, for those in control, to do their best !!!
Queen Jackson. 3 years ago
I live in Florida wear people go to escape the cold, now people can come to escape the heat too! It been raining everyday though. (Not even even exaggerating)
BookCrazyTeen 3 years ago
Got up to 113° F in Vancouver! Hottest I’ve ever seen it in my short lifespan. Climate change is getting worse.
Donny Cromwell 3 years ago
Saturday was the hottest day EVER in Portland. Until Sunday and then Sunday was the hottest day EVER in Portland! That is until MONDAY! Now Monday is the hottest day EVER in Portland! Thank god it's -23 degrees Fahrenheit cooler to a manageable 93 degrees today.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago
I have never been more grateful about having unlimited access to a pool (My grandparents have a pool and they live 10 mins away from me) luckily my state won’t get hit too hard, but it will be in the 90s all week.
Lucy Snatchko 3 years ago
6:13 PM in Pittsburgh, PA and it's 96. We don't get much more than 80-85.
Gabby M 3 years ago
I'm from Southern Arizona where it had been in the 110's for a few weeks. I recently left on a road trip up to the Northwest, excited to feel cool weather. (Anything below 80 to me is cool.) Annnnnd now there is this heatwave. Ha. Ha. Ha. And apparently, it's below 100 back in Arizona. Which almost never happens in the summer. I guess I just bring the heat.
jknbt jknbt 3 years ago
time to finally put in that window unit you have been thinking about...
Wim Cossement 3 years ago
Raising gas prices, making smaller and more fuel efficient cars would help too. Or insulating your house.
Sebastian Melmoth 3 years ago
While the heat been a little more brutal than usual, we have been getting excessive rain where I am in Louisiana, so we aren’t in drought mode at least. But it seems to rain like 4-5 days each week. It’s either too hot to skate or too wet…
Madb vonMesser 3 years ago
I had a12.5hr day delivering mail on Monday in the heat. I got heat exhaustion and was expected back in the next day.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 3 years ago
I'm from AZ. Please be safe and careful. Stay hydrated and cool as you can. I'm thinking about you
EVERLEIGH 3 years ago
Idk what Temps are there in places that aren't usually hot. But places like where I live, extreme hot summers are the norm here. Last year, we got an notification alert on our phones saying that they had to turn off electricity for some hours to turn off the PowerPlant cause it got so hot that it was overheating it. That is normal where I live...and yes, I live in California where people have an idea where its always nice weather...it's not.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
Yes it was very hot here this weekend. Literally so hot they were thinking about shutting down firework sales for the 4th
GirlFriday 3 years ago
I live in the midwest US and we go through the extremes of weather every year, but we are prepared for it. In the Pacific Northwest, they aren't used to these heatwaves and I feel for them. I really do. I hope it cools off there for youins soon.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago
Colorado springs is being blessed with 3 days of sweater weather... it's the third day though and tomorrow is back to the extreme heat
Barbara Vandewalle 3 years ago
These above normal temperatures are cyclical. We had these above normal temps about 30 years. We also had below normal temps in the winter of 90/91. -30 was standard night time lows. Warming trend was zero day time high. Broke two records set in 1894. cyclical
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
I want to feel so bad for these people because they come from places that are not used to the heat. But since I've been an Arizona native for almost 40 years, it's hard. To everyone denying cooking things on the ground or in the car, it does work. Next time you see that it's 118 in phx, remember that temperature is taken in the shade. So it's way hotter. That and then remember it's a "dry" heat so it feels like an oven. We had a very early heat wave here too and it just keeps getting hotter earlier. Why everyone wants to move here (California I'm talking to you) I don't get it. We are moving as soon as our youngest graduates HS.
Tami 3 years ago (edited)
Thing is, so many of us in the PNW don't have air conditioning, and hardly anyone has a pool. How would folks in Arizona fare if they got 7 inches of snow? No snow plows or sanders? Suck it up, buttercup!
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Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Wow, you live on the planet Earth - nothing to be glad about.
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Donny Cromwell 3 years ago
And I'm sure you had a meltdown yourself when you were told to wear a mask.
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
A lot of these people who are complaining about the unbearable heat, also deny climate change. So what's it going to be? Live with the unbearable heat or start pushing the politicians to be more active in preserving nature and promoting eco-friendly regulations. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from the UN, heatwaves will last longer and kill more people and animals each year. Within the next 30 years the entire globe will have progressed more into becoming a complete desert. And this trend has been going on for quite some time now.
Ivana 3 years ago
But wait, we must protect the low income jobs. If we regulate corporations and enforce Eco-friendly regulations, then just think about all the low income jobs that will be lost. Sure it is nothing in comparison to the damage to your personal property or the environment, and sure investing in green energy and industry will create thousands of well paying jobs, but is it really worth it if that means that the CEOs of oil companies have to sell one of their vacation homes?
Load More Replies... Ivana 3 years ago
Climate change is going to keep costing us more and more every year. You live in Texas and your pipes burst and the ceiling caves in. Live up North and a heat wave strikes when nothing you own is built for that sort of weather. Every time you buy the cheap plastic option you think you are saving money but when a hurricane hits your house for the 4th year in a row it is time to start thinking about our over consumption a disposable goods and also to start getting pretty serious about regulating corporations and their energy consumption.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
1:15pm in New England, and it's 100º outside. We generally don't get much higher than the lower 90ºs. Also, July and August are usually appreciably hotter than June here, so...
SirPatTheCat 3 years ago
Anyone know if it cools down at night? The area I live in is basically a desert, and it regularly gets to 110 in the summer, but we can open windows at night to cool off the house. (Also obviously our infrastructure is built to withstand the heat, so we usually don't have issues with things melting, ac not being high enough, etc)
Courtney 3 years ago
I'm in Seattle and it does not cool down. It was still close to 100 degrees at 10pm last night. I used to live in El Paso, Tx which is all desert and it would cool down at least 20 degrees by 8pm, it makes a HUGE difference because you can bear it during the day. But this is unbearable.
Load More Replies... Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
The Vancouver BC area is a temperate rainforest climate. This is not the type of temperatures we see on a normal basis and the humidex was so high that it was making things feel hotter. So it was 109F in my town "feeling like 122F" Air conditioners are not the default and many places were struggling to keep up. My work AC was on, but at the peak yesterday, it couldn't keep my store cooler than 80F. :(
Gracie Jay 3 years ago
While I feel for them, Oklahoma just came out of a heat wave but we’ve had unseasonably cooler weather here with the high for the next 7 day only at 85 f. So I’m livin it up while it lasts:) it is crazy muggy tho, humidity at 82%.
sharron lynn parsons 3 years ago
Climate change has been ignored, far too long, it's a little late, for massive change, hope it's not too late, for those in control, to do their best !!!
Queen Jackson. 3 years ago
I live in Florida wear people go to escape the cold, now people can come to escape the heat too! It been raining everyday though. (Not even even exaggerating)
BookCrazyTeen 3 years ago
Got up to 113° F in Vancouver! Hottest I’ve ever seen it in my short lifespan. Climate change is getting worse.
Donny Cromwell 3 years ago
Saturday was the hottest day EVER in Portland. Until Sunday and then Sunday was the hottest day EVER in Portland! That is until MONDAY! Now Monday is the hottest day EVER in Portland! Thank god it's -23 degrees Fahrenheit cooler to a manageable 93 degrees today.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago
I have never been more grateful about having unlimited access to a pool (My grandparents have a pool and they live 10 mins away from me) luckily my state won’t get hit too hard, but it will be in the 90s all week.
Lucy Snatchko 3 years ago
6:13 PM in Pittsburgh, PA and it's 96. We don't get much more than 80-85.
Gabby M 3 years ago
I'm from Southern Arizona where it had been in the 110's for a few weeks. I recently left on a road trip up to the Northwest, excited to feel cool weather. (Anything below 80 to me is cool.) Annnnnd now there is this heatwave. Ha. Ha. Ha. And apparently, it's below 100 back in Arizona. Which almost never happens in the summer. I guess I just bring the heat.
jknbt jknbt 3 years ago
time to finally put in that window unit you have been thinking about...
Wim Cossement 3 years ago
Raising gas prices, making smaller and more fuel efficient cars would help too. Or insulating your house.
Sebastian Melmoth 3 years ago
While the heat been a little more brutal than usual, we have been getting excessive rain where I am in Louisiana, so we aren’t in drought mode at least. But it seems to rain like 4-5 days each week. It’s either too hot to skate or too wet…
Madb vonMesser 3 years ago
I had a12.5hr day delivering mail on Monday in the heat. I got heat exhaustion and was expected back in the next day.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 3 years ago
I'm from AZ. Please be safe and careful. Stay hydrated and cool as you can. I'm thinking about you
EVERLEIGH 3 years ago
Idk what Temps are there in places that aren't usually hot. But places like where I live, extreme hot summers are the norm here. Last year, we got an notification alert on our phones saying that they had to turn off electricity for some hours to turn off the PowerPlant cause it got so hot that it was overheating it. That is normal where I live...and yes, I live in California where people have an idea where its always nice weather...it's not.
Axolotl King 3 years ago
Yes it was very hot here this weekend. Literally so hot they were thinking about shutting down firework sales for the 4th
GirlFriday 3 years ago
I live in the midwest US and we go through the extremes of weather every year, but we are prepared for it. In the Pacific Northwest, they aren't used to these heatwaves and I feel for them. I really do. I hope it cools off there for youins soon.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago
Colorado springs is being blessed with 3 days of sweater weather... it's the third day though and tomorrow is back to the extreme heat
Barbara Vandewalle 3 years ago
These above normal temperatures are cyclical. We had these above normal temps about 30 years. We also had below normal temps in the winter of 90/91. -30 was standard night time lows. Warming trend was zero day time high. Broke two records set in 1894. cyclical
AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
I want to feel so bad for these people because they come from places that are not used to the heat. But since I've been an Arizona native for almost 40 years, it's hard. To everyone denying cooking things on the ground or in the car, it does work. Next time you see that it's 118 in phx, remember that temperature is taken in the shade. So it's way hotter. That and then remember it's a "dry" heat so it feels like an oven. We had a very early heat wave here too and it just keeps getting hotter earlier. Why everyone wants to move here (California I'm talking to you) I don't get it. We are moving as soon as our youngest graduates HS.
Tami 3 years ago (edited)
Thing is, so many of us in the PNW don't have air conditioning, and hardly anyone has a pool. How would folks in Arizona fare if they got 7 inches of snow? No snow plows or sanders? Suck it up, buttercup!
Load More Replies... Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Wow, you live on the planet Earth - nothing to be glad about.
Load More Replies... Donny Cromwell 3 years ago
And I'm sure you had a meltdown yourself when you were told to wear a mask.
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