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Posted on 7/1/21 at 9:36 pm to DesScorp
Posted on 7/1/21 at 9:36 pm to DesScorp
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Meteorologists are saying it's a once in a millenium thing.
Yep. Which some people don't understand is an instance of extreme weather.
Sadly, Lytton, British Columbia, was destroyed by a fire today, just 3 days after setting the 121 degree Fahrenheit record high.
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Posted on 7/2/21 at 12:14 am to starkvingrad
European Space Agency quote:or 121.28 Fahrenheit however this image
Canada broke its temperature record for a third consecutive day: recording a whopping 49.6°C on 29 June in Lytton, a village northeast of Vancouver, in British Columbia.
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shows the actual temperature of the land’s surface ... which can be significantly hotter or colder than air temperatures.
quote:or 156.2
The extent of the heatwave can be seen in this map, which shows the land surface temperature of parts of Canada and the US on 29 June. The data show that surface temperatures in Vancouver and Portland reached 43°C, and Calgary recorded 45°C. The hottest temperatures recorded are in the state of Washington (visible in deep red) with maximum land surface temperatures of around 69°C.
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