Armel Castellan, a Victoria-based meteorologist with Environment Canada, said this week’s extreme heat poses a significant risk to people’s health but has not reached the same intensity as what was seen during the “heat dome” last summer.
B.C. government spokesperson Aimée Harper said in a statement that the province is not anticipating an extreme heat emergency at this time, but is prepared to issue an alert to mobile phones if the threshold is met. This requires daytime maximum temperatures to substantively increase day over day for three or more consecutive days and a “very high increase in public health risk.
Linda Stride, the city’s recreation, health and wellness supervisor, said their cooling centre has books, games, cards and puzzles, as well as snacks from the local food bank. There is also space set aside for people with pets. Kamloops has two more cooling centres that are expected to open in August.
Interior Health said 18 people have visited emergency departments in the past week for heat-related issues, compared with seven the week before, while on Vancouver Island five people went to emergency departments this week for heatIn Calgary, Chaz Smith, founder of outreach organization BeTheChangeYYC, said many people living on the streets are suffering heat fatigue.
While it looks nice & feels nice, water is at a premium around the globe!!!!!! This is a slap in the face to those who are dying of thirst:( Plant more trees already!!!!!! & protect Old Growth. C’mon People. Read the signs.
Lol its gotta be hard even for you worms to be pretending summer never existed before
Should have paid Horgan more so he could have lowered the temperature.
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