The temperature continues to climb in Canada. The country recorded a new heat record on Tuesday for the third consecutive day. Mercury reached 49.5 degrees in Lytton, a village northeast of Vancouver.
According to local media, dozens of deaths have been reported in several Canadian cities due to these weather conditions.
Canadian authorities have announced that at least 134 people have died suddenly since Friday in the Canadian Metropolis region of the Pacific coast.
This heat wave is explained by a phenomenon called “heat dome”: high pressures imprison hot air in the region. “The intensity of this heat dome is so rare statistically that you might expect only once every thousand years on average,” reports AFP.
