Canada can’t catch a break from the heat. Will it last all summer?

A sizzling heat wave has Canada and nan United States successful its grip arsenic a world streak of nan hottest months continues to shatter records.

Heat warnings were successful spot connected Monday successful parts of 8 provinces — British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia — arsenic good arsenic nan Northwest Territories.

Environment Canada is forecasting that B.C.’s Southern Interior could spot temperatures climb into nan debased 40s C this week.

Temperatures successful Alberta and Saskatchewan are expected to scope astatine slightest 30 C, pinch immoderate parts of Alberta forecast to deed astir 35 C by Wednesday.

In Atlantic Canada, daytime highs are forecast to apical 30 C crossed overmuch of nan region.

Meanwhile, down south, an excessive power informing — nan National Weather Service’s highest alert — was successful effect Monday for portions of U.S. states specified arsenic California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Parts of nan East Coast, arsenic good arsenic states including Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, were besides nether power advisories.

The vulnerable temperatures caused nan decease of a motorcyclist and nan hospitalization of different visitant successful Death Valley successful eastbound California connected Saturday.

The utmost power comes arsenic a caller study published precocious connected Sunday revealed that June 2024 was nan hottest ever recorded — nan 13th consecutive period that nan grounds for nan world mean somesthesia has been broken.

In its monthly report, European ambiance agency Copernicus said nan world mean aboveground aerial somesthesia past period was 16.66 C, nan highest ever recorded for June since information postulation began successful 1850.

“Outside Europe, temperatures were astir supra mean complete eastbound Canada, nan occidental United States and Mexico, Brazil, bluish Siberia, nan Middle East, bluish Africa and occidental Antarctica,” Copernicus said.

Factors for illustration expanding greenhouse state emissions and nan El Niño arena mixed person had a “huge impact” connected nan “bizarre and utmost upwind pattern” for June, Hossein Bonakdari, an subordinate professor of civilian engineering astatine nan University of Ottawa, said successful an question and reply pinch Global News.

Given nan trajectory complete nan past year, Bonakdari said 2024 is apt going to beryllium different grounds summertime and twelvemonth for climate-related disasters.

“The utmost upwind events observed globally successful June 2024 are accordant pinch patterns linked to climate change,” he said.

The existent basking conditions will apt not bode good for Canada’s wildfire season, experts say.

“I judge nan occidental and cardinal portion of nan state will acquisition little rainfall than usual, contributing to nan drought conditions and expanding nan consequence of wildfires,” Bonakdari said.

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For June, Canadian authorities officials had already warned astir above-normal occurrence activity crossed overmuch of Canada, stretching from B.C. to occidental Labrador, New Brunswick and confederate Nova Scotia.

In July, occurrence activity is imaginable from Yukon and eastbound B.C. crossed to occidental Quebec. The astir aggravated region for July will apt beryllium from northeastern B.C. crossed nan Northwest Territories and nan Prairie provinces.

Copernicus said that June marked nan 12th successive period that nan world was 1.5 degrees warmer than pre-industrial times. That 1.5-degree somesthesia people is important because that’s nan warming limit astir each nan countries successful nan world agreed upon successful nan 2015 Paris ambiance agreement.

The mean oversea aboveground somesthesia (SST) was besides nan highest ever recorded for June.

Over nan past year, El Niño has been an “important” contributing facet to precocious world SSTs, Copernicus said.

However, an expected displacement to La Niña successful precocious summertime aliases early autumn his twelvemonth could bring successful immoderate wildfire relief pinch nan anticipation of bedewed upwind conditions connected nan West Coast and into Alberta, experts say.

During El Niño years, waste and acquisition winds weaken and nan Pacific Ocean tends to merchandise much power into nan atmosphere, making areas successful nan bluish U.S. and Canada drier and warmer than usual.

During La Niña years, waste and acquisition winds are stronger and h2o temperatures go cooler than mean successful nan eastbound Pacific Ocean adjacent nan equator. Hence, nan bluish U.S. and Canada thin to beryllium wetter and colder.

The modulation betwixt nan 2 phenomena tin drastically change upwind conditions, Bonakdari said.

“During specified transitions, nan ambiance responds to nan changing water temperatures, which tin create basking spots for utmost upwind events,” he said.

— with files from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press