![]() At least 251 visits occurred on Monday alone, when temperatures were highest. The Oregon Health Authority reported a total of 506 heat-related visits to emergency departments and urgent care centers over the past four days. The Northwest heat wave is 'unprecedented.' Here's what's pushing it into uncharted territory. ![]() Seattle and other cities broke all-time heat records over the weekend, with temperatures soaring well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius). The sun shines near the Space Needle, Monday, June 28, 2021, in Seattle. “Over the last three years, previous maximum single-day count of admissions for heat-related illness was 9,” Spitzer told CNN in an email. King County, which includes Seattle, had 40 emergency department visits for heat-related illness on Saturday and 91 on Sunday, according to Gabriel Spitzer, communications specialist for Public Health Seattle & King County. Cory Portner, a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Health, said 81 of those cases led to inpatient admissions. In Washington, at least 676 people visited emergency departments for heat-related symptoms from Friday through Sunday alone – before peak heat descended upon the state. Scientists have told CNN the heat wave is a clear sign of the climate crisis, and similar extreme heat events will happen more frequently in the future. ![]() At least two locations in Washington reached 118 degrees, which, if confirmed, would tie the state temperature record that dates back to 1928.Ī town in southwest Canada registered a temperature of 117.5 degrees – the highest ever recorded in the country, and around 48 degrees above what’s normal for this time of year. Portland set record-high temperatures three days in a row, topping out at 116 degrees on Monday. ![]() Hundreds of people have visited emergency departments or urgent-care clinics in the Pacific Northwest since Friday – and as many as 230 deaths have been reported – as an excruciating heat wave smashed all-time temperature records in Oregon, Washington and Canada. ![]()
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