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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My Parents Live Outside Of Seattle And Set Up A “Pool” For Their Resident Raccoon. I Think She Appreciated It
I do this for my raccoons on my porch all summer long. Mama and her babies love it. As do the pigeons who stop by for a dip. Always put water out for wild animals in your neighbourhood. They really need it in the summer.
Awww don’t forget the wildlife put water out for all,of them big or small. We put ice cubes in water and have lots of shade for them
Don’t leave food out, but I’d definitely leave out water if I could.
Load More Replies...Dad Made Me A Pool To Beat The Heat!!!!
Way to much water. Will take to long to bring the dog to a boil and there is a lack of marinade as well
Nice, but the black truck, is in the sun, too bad, but good idea !!!
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”
CLAIRE! HELP US HOW MAKE STIP HEAT RAYS OF DEATH!!
Load More Replies...Some advice from a window pro. One is better off covering glass from the exterior, if at all possible. It's much more effective then attempts at interior blocking. The idea being to not let the heat in first.
This is a great idea and I do it every summer (Australia) It works to a certain degree, cuts down the heat not stop..
How make stop heat rays of death? How about stop making them? Yes, you human consumers, which means every single human on this planet has the power to change and save the world so we all can survive, simply by changing what's on your plate!!! - The meat, dairy, egg industries are guzzling up natural resources, spewing out contaminants, decimating natural lands and wildlife which lays groundwork for emergence of deadly viruses like C19, and .... wreaking havoc on our planet's weather system. Eating more than one MILLION animals EVERY SINGLE HOUR will not help to stop this global demise. So please, stop complaining and start acting responsibly and compassionately!!! Please.
I feel this so hard. I'm staying with family in the Seattle area. There are 5 skylights in the living room and it was 90 degrees INSIDE with the AC blasting.
I love sky-lites and I have had them forever ... however... the glass in them is NEVER clear glass but always filtered glass which lets in light but never HEAT!
I saw the pictures first and it scared me bc I thought the glass was literally melting
One of the best home improvement investments I ever made was a remote controlled shade for my skylight.
🤣 I grew up in Tacoma/Seattle. I can't believe how hot it got! NEVER did that when I lived there. Reports said it had been 100 years since this happened.
104 Degrees In The Shade In Our Barn . Doing Our Best
104 is hot but if you are not used to it like Oregonians it is a killer. Most do not have air conditioning and just are not used to hot temperatures because it is pretty temperate all year long.
Oh, I pray that there will be some relief for you and everyone who is suffering from the lack of water and from the heat!
104 in the shadow, that a lot, take care and stay safe out of the sun.
Looks Like My Candles Need The Blue Pill
Mine did this when I lived in my parents' attic. Great for drying out camping stuff.
That means that their candles are probably not from wax..
Load More Replies...Most of the Pacific Northwest doesn't have air conditioning. I'm in Seattle and it was 98 degrees in my apartment last night. Try sleeping in that...
Load More Replies...Might Have Out-Rednecked Ourselves This Time
I absolutely grabbed out umbrella from the patio table and set it up next to our little pool. It's stick through the arm rest opening of a patio chair and the chair has an old log to weigh it down and it's so redneck looking but I don't care it works
Load More Replies...Excellent idea that also keeps the truck cool when you need to use it.
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
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
Different building codes for different areas. In Texas, they were freezing when it got super cold because their houses weren't built for freezing temps. Just because your house was built to code for a place where it reaches 110 doesn't mean the whole world follows the same codes.
Load More Replies...Taking into account that the siding, foundation, and electric meter all match; I would venture a guess that it was lighter siding that got painted a darker color. Apparently vinyl siding doesn’t like this.
I don't think siding is meant to be painted. See the blue on the wooden step that is the same shade of blue? I'm wondering if the person painted , and then the heat happened....
I live with Ice storms and Blizzards, but that has got to be the cheapest siding ever.
Should check with the company, hope they didn't get ripped off, poor product !!!
I Kept On Hearing Strange Popping Noises. Looked Outside And...
This happened to an unopened can of ginger ale in my car…stains weren’t so bad since it’s a light colored drink, but the car was sticky for awhile
Load More Replies...I can think of at least 3 scenarios off the top of my head in which people may have left beverages outside of their home. Also, they could have moved the cans to the shady spot where they took the picture - that doesn't negate the claim that the cans were outside in the heat and popped open.
Load More Replies...Offtopic, but... Did BP really censor out the word "death" in this person's username? Wtf
When I lived in Minnesota, pop cans could explode in the car in the winter. Now I live in the Mojave Desert, soda cans can explode in the car in the summer. I've experienced -40°F not counting wind chill, and 122`F with thank heavens, minimal humidity.
Behold
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.
I always get a kick out of the meteorologists who bake cookies in the car when it's super hot. I imagine the car smells amazing.
My Ac Exploded On A Recording Breaking Heat Wave In Oregon
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
That's what global warming does. Climate change is not a hoax. We need to stop polluting and clean up the mess we've made of this planet. Solar and wind are free and sustainable - oil and coal are not.
Load More Replies...That is the manual power cut-off to the compressor unit, which has 240 volts running through it. A bad connection in the box could have overheated and caused that. If all the power connections had been good, that would not have happened. I know, because I have one on the back of my house that feeds the compressor unit.
Got So Hot In Portland Today That Denver St Buckled
I live in ND and this happened on a few different streets when we had a 4 day stretch of 100+ degrees! That kind of heat is no joke.
I used to live near that intersection! It always seemed like shoddy asphalt work out there, but I didn't know it was that bad...
this has nothing to do with the heat. There is a sewer or water line leak under there. Watch out for the coming sink hole.
Before And After Of My Hydrangeas In The Portland Heat Wave. Goodnight, Sweet Prince
Hydrangeas are drama queens though (at least mine are). They'll perk right up after a drink of water.
It would be kinda funny if it was hyacinths because of the connection to Apollo/the Sun
Those flowers are exactly how it felt yesterday in the heat. Just walking to my car felt like a oven. (115 in Vancouver, WA)
Having To Use All My Fans And Constant Ice Packs Just To Keep My Fish From Cooking In The Heat Wave...
Take some fish tank water dedicate an ice cube tray and freeze their water. Keep the cubes in a freezer bag until needed. Yes it’s a pain in the butt however they deserve to be kept cool as well. Be sure not to put in too many ice cubes
Its Not That Hot
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.
Try To Find Shady Areas Or Grass If You Need To Take Your Pets Out
But you have to. My dog won't go in the house. So you carry them to the grass, let them go to the bathroom and pick them up right back to play inside.
Load More Replies...It's not just their paws. When it's that hot, they can easily overheat, and as they don't sweat they struggle to regulate their temperature easily.
Load More Replies...There are some places you do not want to put your pets: 1 outside anywhere, 2 Do not transport your animal in the back of your pick up truck that metal bed will produce serious burns on your pets paws, 3 the beach, If it’s too hot for your feet it’s too hot for your dogs feet. Hot sand can cause burns. 4 don’t leave pets in a vehicle unattended, it takes minutes to be lethal. Leave Fido at home. Remember your pet is wearing a fur coat and many animals are heat intolerant, please bring your pets in make sure they’re in the shade if they’re outside and they have plenty of cool water. Stay safe out there people!!
We had recently 36 degree here in Berlin... 🥵
Load More Replies...WHY?????? Just why would you take your dog out in that heat? It will KILL him.
State Route 544 Milepost 7 Near Everson, Wa Is Currently Closed. The Asphalt Roadway Is Buckling And Unsafe For Travel
In Case You're Wondering Why We're Canceling Service For The Day, Here's What The Heat Is Doing To Our Power Cables
That cable was clearly chafing against the threaded rod, that's the fault of the installer more than the heat.
I'd say the heat sped up the failure though, so a lot of shoddy work/deteriorating equipment went out all at once instead of one at a time
Load More Replies...I agree with M O'Connell. I have seen that A LOT on communications towers where the attachment wires loosened over time and allowed movement of the coax in the wind. IF the cables are attached properly, that will not happen. Depending on the location and weather extremes, inspections should be done yearly, no less than every five years.
It’s So Hot In Portland My Uncle And I Filled His Skateboarding Bowl With Hose Water
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?
And you still have the water, you lucky dude. It will change too if humans do not stop their destructive, cruel ways of life.
Snow Melt From Excessive Heat In Bc
This snow likely would have melted anyway. It's just that it's melting all at once instead of slowly during the course of the Summer and therein lies the problem.
This always happens in BC, my home province. In fact, whenever someone on the news says something like “BC was hit very hard by wildfires” that is literally every single year in summer, the pain of a rainforest
Multitasking At The IKEA Lot
My grandmother used to dehydrate peaches and apple slices for cooking on the front and back dash of her 1960 Ford, the dashes in those old cars were perfectly flat. She would spread the fruit out on sanitized cheesecloth. That car always made me hungry for fruit pie
Years ago, before my wife and I got married in '78, I had a black-on-black 74 Mustang II. I live in Southwest Georgia where 95-99 degree days in the summer are not unusual. I was at one of the favorite swimming holes one day and got in my car to go home. It had been parked in the sun for between 4-6 hours. I could swear I could hear sizzling sounds from my wet cut off jeans I had been swimming in and the seat. It didn't take but a second or two to figure out that I needed to give the air-conditioner time to cool things down before I got back in.
Frozen mini tacos being heated inside a car, in the sun, where temps can reach upwards of a 150 degrees.
Load More Replies...We’re At Kate’s Ice Cream In Ne Portland. This Walk-In Freezer Is Supposed To Sit At Temperatures Around -10
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.
if you keep opening the door every couple minutes this is what happens in any temp.
Why do people try so hard to refuse to get the point? A walk-in freezer is meant to be used regularly by humans.
Load More Replies...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
Wipe it off while it's still hot, else you just have to accept your new spotty paint job
"You do not like my car? It's just a teenager, that's rude!"
Load More Replies...In Scotland 1997 the tar on the roads was runny. They had the gritters out to try to keep traffic mobile. The road surface there is designed more for cold weather than freakishly hot. Seeing a motorcyclist in speedos and flip flops get sprayed with grit was painful.
It is tar from the creosote wood preservative they treat the crossties with. THAT is NOT something you want to leave on your finger for very long.
The Heat Cooked My Roses!
95-degree heat here in late April killed my peas and lettuce and spinach but we get hot weather all the time here in northern California. 95 today with 103, 108, 108, 106, and 99 for the next 5 days. Even my tomatoes are having a time with it and I have to shade them with a patio umbrella from the afternoon sun just to keep them alive. This heat continues until September, sometimes October.
Would watering it and creating some sort of shade help to save it?
Two Windows In The Master. Two Ac Units. Goodnight Cruel Sauna- I Mean, Seattle
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!
They might not be the most efficient, but they are sometimes the only option. Not all building will allow you to install aircon, and where it isn't normally needed, these are much cheaper for the few days a year you might need them.
Load More Replies...Tip: keep the hoses that exhaust the hot air as short as possible: they are radiators. It's a good idea to insulate them, for example with flexible foam sheets.
I would be interested to see research on the heat generated by all the AC units even in a temperate country such as England, let alone some of the hot states of the USA. They heat up the world around them to cool down just your house, I bet they do a LOT more damage to climate than some of the things in the media daily
A big issue is the massive power consumption of air con units in any form. Most are not the portable kind. Their window units and splits in most of the world. In the US whole home is common. All of them use a staggering amount of electricity and the number of units in the world is increasing sharply as the climate gets warmer.
Load More Replies...True, i have one and that s**t doesn't work 😔 that thing wasn't cheap either
You may be able to find a dual-hose conversion kit that allows it to cool the condenser with outside air, but they aren't available for most models.
Load More Replies...Same! My house doesn’t have built in AC and we’re not allowed to put in our own AC (it’s an old place and has asbestos) so we bought a portable AC unit that doesn’t cover very much. It’s the best and last one we could afford in the city and it works for like 1 room.
Electric Power Companies are happier. Rise up the Bills, more profits. Sorry, but it's a cruel reality!
Why not a ventilation tower or something, so you won't have to keep your window open and have warm air flow in ?
Those indoor a/c units don't do much. You might as well make one of those homemade ac's with a tub of ice and a fan, it's cheaper and just as effective.
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
Wow. You’ve created something even more inherently user-hostile than the double saber.
Load More Replies...Fans Are Bit The Only Thing Seattle Stores Have Sold Out Of During The Heat Wave. Good Luck Trying To Get Ice Cream
"what would you doooo for a Klondike bar?" Apparently wait until all other options are exhausted.
I live near Seattle and all of the fast food places, Slurpee machines, restaurants, and ice cream aisles are either packed or sold out. Nobody wants to cook in this heat and cooling off with ice cream seems nice until you're sitting in the DQ drive thru for 30 minutes
Target In Hollywood District Can’t Keep Up With The Heat. Don’t Expect To Get Anything Cold Here
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??
Does TX not have adequate heat for winter? It's all relative. Their AC isn't used to handling 108F for days on end.
Load More Replies...Isn't this one of the stores being renovated? Something is phishy and it's not Ben and Jerry's Phish Food.
Ac is surprisingly not very common in the Pac Northwest, which shocked me when I moved there from Oklahoma. Didn't really need it most of the year. the month that is usually summer it's nice to have. Seriously, there is normally like only a month or so of really hot weather there. I mean over 90's. I can't function without AC in Oklahoma, the heat just melts my brain.
They are tropical fruit. They grow in hot climates.
Load More Replies...Yeah, they do have air conditioning. It's just so hot for this area, anything cold is gone from the shelves.
There are on frozen foods but most supermarkets have open front cold cases for dairy, meat, and a lot of the produce as well as deli foods and drinks
Load More Replies...Seattle Grocery Stores In A Heat Wave Just As Bad As Before A Snow Storm!
The food was actually just moved because the open front coolers were not keeping the food cold.
taking advantage of a crisis. No reason on earth to not have food there. You're being HAD.
it's pretty funny how everyone in America is talking about how hot it is. I've hardly seen colder days in NZ.
You should see a doctor for your permanent butt pain
Load More Replies...Took Advantage Of Today's Heat To Bake Cookies In My Car
no way this worked...that pan would have to get up to at least 250º F
nope wont work. if it says 350 on the package, there is no way that even with it being over 100 out side that its going to get up to a temp that can cook cookies lol
Au contraire, my friend. You couldn’t bake bread because it’s a much more complicated chemical reaction, but I can think of several kinds of cookies you could bake like this. (I can only speak for cookies from scratch.)
Load More Replies...Live in Central CA where summers see over 100 F quite often, my dad used to dry grapes for raisins in the back seat of the car!
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?
I don't get this either. If this was a cooling system, you'd be wanting to turn it down in a heatwave so don't need 40. If this is a heating system, also irrelevant in a heatwave. If this is a thermoMETER rather than a thermoSTAT, then it makes sense.
Celcius. 40 is over 100*F. The thermostat doesn't register that hot.
Load More Replies...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!
It's an attention whore thing. I just saw a post of some instatwit who paid $7.00 for an ice cream cone, took a pic with it, then threw the whole thing away. I really wish that site was never invented.
Load More Replies...Why wasn't it eaten? That's such an obnoxious waste of food. People who do sh*t like this purely for social media are pathetic and so far up their own a**e they can poop out of their face.
Because when food is in the "temperature danger zone" for longer than 10 minutes harmful bacteria like salmonella can grow. Would be like eating cheese left unrefrigerated. Would you eat a slice of warm cheese left in the sun? It is sad to see the other food wasted just for entertainment
Umm… most hard cheese is much more flavourful eaten at room temperature rather than chilled. My in-laws kept a cheese dome on their dining room hutch that housed a Stilton cheese. It stayed at room temperature 24/7.
Load More Replies...There are pictures from the north Africa campaign in works war 2, used for propaganda purposes, of German Afrika Korps soldiers cooking eggs and bacon on the insanely hot metal of their tanks and armoured vehicles. Most of the comments by the troops there were asking the lines of "oh yes, it was that guy, but where on earth did they find the bacon and eggs?!"
The virtue signaling never ends. There is food waste problem in the world... It isn't social media posts causing it. Please, all of you complaining about the waste, get over yourselves.
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.
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...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.
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...
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)
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...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. :(
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%.
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 !!!
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)
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.
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...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.
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...
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)
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...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. :(
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%.
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 !!!
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)
