Canada can’t catch a break from the heat. Will it last all summer?
globalnews.caA sizzling heat wave has Canada and the United States in its grip as a global streak of the hottest months continues to shatter records.
Heat warnings were in place on Monday in parts of eight provinces — British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia — as well as the Northwest Territories.
Environment Canada is forecasting that B.C.’s Southern Interior could see temperatures climb into the low 40s C this week.
Temperatures in Alberta and Saskatchewan are expected to reach at least 30 C, with some parts of Alberta forecast to hit about 35 C by Wednesday.
In Atlantic Canada, daytime highs are forecast to top 30 C across much of the region.
Meanwhile, down south, an excessive heat warning — the National Weather Service’s highest alert — was in effect Monday for portions of U.S. states such as California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Parts of the East Coast, as well as states including Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, were also under heat advisories.
The dangerous temperatures caused the death of a motorcyclist and the hospitalization of another visitor in Death Valley in eastern California on Saturday.
The extreme heat comes as a new report published late on Sunday revealed that June 2024 was the hottest ever recorded — the 13th consecutive month that the record for the global average temperature has been broken.
In its monthly report, European climate agency Copernicus said the global average surface air temperature last month was 16.66 C, the highest ever recorded for June since data collection began in 1850.
“Outside Europe, temperatures were most above average over eastern Canada, the western United States and
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