Earlier this summer… a devastating heat dome – caused when high pressure clamps hot air over a region for days or weeks – struck western North America...
The heatwave that sparked this situation was unlike anything in living memory (or longer) in this part of the world…
During the last126 years Seattlehit 1000 F…onlythree times; thisJune, it passedthat figure onthree successive
days.
The effectswere immediateand devastating. |