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- "We're going to be looking at all-time record highs in some spots."
- In the city of Seattle, record highs are forecast to be blown away.
- An excessive heat watch has been issued for much of Oregon and Washington.
The normally mild Pacific Northwest is facing a potentially historic, record-breaking heat wave this weekend: Temperatures will near or surpass 100 degrees in cities such as Portland and Seattle.
That’s hotter than in Miami, where highs in the upper 80s are expected, forecasters said.
“We’re going to be looking at all-time record highs in some spots,” AccuWeather meteorologist Bernie Rayno warned for a part of the country where air conditioning is not a staple in homes.
Weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce, who is warning of “dangerously hot temperatures,” said Portland could approach the city’s all-time record high of 107 degrees. The National Weather Service forecast office in Portland wrote that “Three words will describe weather for inland areas this weekend into early next week … HOT, VERY HOT.”
Farther north, the Seattle-Tacoma airport is expected to approach its all-time June record high of 96 degrees, and it could come within a few degrees of its all-time record of 103 degrees set in July 2009, Dolce said.
It’s not just western WA that will be impacted by heat this weekend & early next week, Excessive Heat Watches were issued across much of the Pacific Northwest. Take a look at the HeatRisk map for Sunday – widespread impacts are likely from this event https://t.co/UGH89gfYYw#wawxpic.twitter.com/m2E9Lp82XZ
And in Seattle, record highs are forecast to be blown away, AccuWeather said. Highs both days this weekend in Seattle are forecast to be in the neighborhood of 96 degrees, which will easily surpass previous record highs of 90 set in 2006 and 92 set in 2015.
An excessive-heat watch has been issued for much of Oregon and Washington. The National Weather Service office in Seattle provided tips for keeping homes that don’t have air conditioning cool during a heat wave.
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