Summer is here!
parked over the Pacific Northwest during the last week of June, soaring temperatures well past all-time record highs.
The descending air in a heat dome creates a warmer and warmer air mass over time. From June 25 thru June 28 in 2021, temperatures in the region warmed each day, peaking on the 28th, crushing previous all-time record highs. Bellingham soared to 99 degrees, Everett Paine Field 100, Arlington 103, Sea-Tac Airport 109, Olympia and Forks 110, and Portland, Ore. a scorching 116 degrees.
Yet with the ongoing warming of the planet, the global upper-level air pattern has been tending to produce more of these cut off upper-level highs that create extreme heat waves. For instance, Texas is suffering through one such event this week as well as parts of India. Earlier this spring, Western Europe had a similar heat wave.
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