OPINION

Killer 'Wave-7' heat getting far more common

Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/07/2021

» First the "heat dome", with temperatures in the mid-to-high forties Celsius in many parts of western North America for up to a week (49.6°C in Lytton, British Columbia). Then, when the forests were tinder-dry, came the wildfires (which wiped Lytton out). From northern California to northern British Columbia, the records were being broken every day.