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Lytton, BC, now has the highest recorded temperature in Canadian history with a high today of 46.1 degrees C (~115F).
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https://twitter.com/ecccweatherbc/status/1409286363158044674?s=21
“Lytton BC has broken the record for Canada's all time maximum temperature of 46.1. The old record was 45.0 C set on July 5, 1937 at Yellow
I live in BC and it’s been absolutely horrible. I also work outside so that’s even worse.
I'm in Vancouver, and fortunate to have one little a/c unit that's working overtime to keep one room cool(er). I'd be in serious trouble without it, since part of my autoimmune issues involves having shit thermoregulation.
I'm horrified that you're working outside! These are not temps meant for people to work in; any time the air is warmer than body temp, things get beyond dangerous. I hope you're okay--and drinking water (preferably with electrolytes) as much as you can. I picked up a couple of those gel hot/cold packs from London Drugs (for icing injuries, etc.) and they've been a godsend. I slept with one on my head last night.
I don't know what kind of work you do, but if your employers are making you wear dark colors or not giving adequate breaks (where you can get cool/put your feet in cool water/put your whole body in cool water), they're endangering your life. If you can, wear damp clothes and dampen them again as soon as they start to feel warm/dry.
Stay safe!
Looks like the worst of this heat wave might be over for me soon.
Finally sub 30 temperatures are in sight.
Today won’t be fun, though. It’s expected to hit 38 tonight.
Just little BC Heatwave things 🥰
Having no air conditioning
Having a top floor apartment with floor to ceiling windows (because you have a sliding door) that face the afternoon sun
Wearing a swimsuit all day so you can just hop into a cold shower and hope it keeps you cool a little longer
Having your fan and tiny air cooler running 24/7 and it only make about a 5 degree difference
Wetting tank tops and putting them in the freezer so you can take them out later to use as a wearable freezer pack
Sleeping with an ice pack to help keep you cool in your tiny bedroom with no air flow
Going outside into 32 degree weather and it being colder than your apartment
Waking up at 4am so that you can enjoy the coldest time of the day even though it is still in the mid to high 20s
Constantly checking up on your cats because it’s so hot they’ve started panting
Having to wet down your fan because it’s so hot your fan has absorbed heat and is heating the air passing through it
Running the cold water for a full minute before it actually runs cold because the pipes are heating the water due to the temperatures
And all this is without even hitting the hottest day of this heatwave! Today only hot 40! Tomorrow’s supposed to be 43!
At least 65 people in Vancouver alone, have died directly from this heatwave in British Columbia, since Friday, June 25th, 2021.
https://twitter.com/AngelaSterritt/status/1409996584725618689?s=20
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I just don’t know what to say anymore. Lytton, BC has today reached 49.5 degrees Celsius, which is over 121 F.
This is a preliminary reading, and the final reading could be higher.
https://twitter.com/ecccweatherbc/status/1410017678216024067?s=21
“At 4:20pm, Lytton Climate Station reported 49.5°C, once again, breaking the daily and all-time temperature records for the 3rd straight day
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'You're not supposed to break records by 4 or 5 degrees Celsius,' says co-author
The Pacific Northwest's recent heat wave — which overwhelmed communities in both Canada and the U.S. — was at least 150 times more likely to happen because of climate change, new data suggests.
A team of 27 researchers from the World Weather Attribution Initiative, including scientists from universities and meteorological agencies across North America and Europe, looked at observations and computer simulations to compare today's climate with that of the past.
They concluded the record-breaking heat wave would have been "virtually impossible" without human influence.
Lytton, B.C., a small village in the Fraser Canyon, broke record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada three days in a row during the heat wave, eventually hitting 49.6 C. That's up from 45 C, recorded in Saskatchewan in 1937.
"When we look at the records of temperature through time, there's a steady increase in the hottest temperatures of the year, but then this event came along and it just broke that record," said Faron Anslow, a climatologist at the University of Victoria's Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium and a co-author on the report, which was released Wednesday.
"Literally, the data points are plotting in a way that we had to circle them to draw attention to them, because the eye is not expecting them to be way up there," Anslow told CBC News.
"What we are seeing is unprecedented," said co-author Friederike Otto, a climatologist at the University of Oxford, in a statement. "You're not supposed to break records by four or five degrees Celsius."
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One expert called the weather 'really horrifying.'
Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, bewildering meteorologists.
Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with the company Vaisala, which maps lightning strikes around in the world, said the North American Lightning Detection Network sensed 710,177 lightning events across British Columbia and northwestern Alberta in about 15 hours, between 3 p.m. on June 30 and 6 a.m. on July 1.
Of those, 597,314 were in-cloud pulses, meaning the strikes didn't hit the ground. "Each in-cloud lightning 'strike' can be made up of multiple in-cloud pulses," Vagasky explained.
There were 112,803 cloud-to-ground strokes detected over the same area, he said.
Vagasky called the numbers "surprising" for Canada. "In studying lightning, there is always something interesting that comes up, whether it is lightning in a hurricane or volcano, or large numbers of lightning," he said. "As a whole, Canada doesn’t generally see a lot of lightning — about 90% less than the United States. In fact, the counts from yesterday are more what you would expect to see in a big day over lightning-prone regions like Texas or Oklahoma."
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