RELATED: Sweltering streets: Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat across US Officials hope outreach efforts will help those facing the greatest risk from heat, including people who are older, people who live alone, those with disabilities, low-income households without air conditioning and the unhoused. Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Management is opening cooling centers in public buildings and installing misting stations in parks. The NOAA estimates that weather and climate disasters, including tornados, hail and extreme drought, have cost at least $9 billion in damage across the nation so far this year. saw above-average warmer temperatures in June, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Overnight temperatures may not dip below the 70s in some areas. "We’re trying to message that people who don’t have AC might have a harder time near the end of the event," said Bumgardner, adding there may be an "accumulation" of sleep deprivation if it doesn’t cool off sufficiently at night. "It’s nothing we haven’t seen before in terms of the magnitude, but the duration of the event is fairly unusual," said John Bumgardner, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Portland. Portland, Oregon, could top 100 degrees on Tuesday and wide swaths of western Oregon and Washington are predicted to be well above historic averages throughout the week.Įxtreme heat advisory for Western Washington this week While temperatures aren’t expected to reach those highs next week, the number of consecutive hot days has officials on guard. Many of those who died were elderly and lived alone. In late June and early July 2021, about 800 people died across Oregon, Washington and British Columbia during the days-long extreme heat event, which saw record temperatures soar to 116 degrees in Portland and smash heat records in cities and towns across the region. While such high temperatures are sometimes seen in the Northeast local officials and residents in the Northwest have been scrambling to adjust to longer, hotter heat waves following last summer’s deadly "heat dome." RELATED: Hottest temps of 2022 ahead for SeattleĪt least two heat-related deaths have been reported in the Northeast. Boston also hit 100 degrees, surpassing the previous daily record high of 98 degrees set in 1933. Newark, New Jersey, saw its fifth consecutive day of 100 degrees or higher, the longest such streak since records began in 1931. Philadelphia hit 99 degrees Sunday before even factoring in the humidity.
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