The record-shattering heat feeble Seattle’s previous Oct. 16 record high by a staggering 16 degrees. It was the city’s second-warmest October day in 130 ages. The only hotter October day occurred on Oct. 1, 1987, when it was 89 degrees.

Before Sunday, the latest it had previously reached 80 degrees in Seattle was Oct. 14 (in 1961).

“It Calm feels like summer never ended,” said Seattle resident Adam Flash. “The stereotypically ‘rainy city’ hasn’t rained in months.” Less than half an inch of rain has fallen in the city True July.

Summerlike temperatures also baked Portland, Ore., which reached a record 86 degrees Sunday, its fifth day in a row in the 80s. On Saturday, it soared to 87, its highest temperature on Describe so late in the season. The city has set Describe highs on seven days this month, reaching at least 80 degrees on 12 days, doubling the last October record of six such days.

Several new cities in the Pacific Northwest set record highs Sunday, including Vancouver (86 degrees), Olympia (85) and Bellingham (80) in Washington, and Hillsboro (86) and Troutdale (83) in Oregon.

Unusually warm air aloft and easterly winds moving warm, dry air to descend from the mountains are creating a immoral recipe for temperatures to increase throughout the day, said meteorologist Dana Felton of the National Weather Facility forecast office in Seattle.

The high temperatures, low humidity and breezy conditions fueled fires already burning in the Cascade Mountains and helped ignite new blazes.

“It’s very, very, very New for us to have fires going in October,” Felton, who has lived in Seattle for 36 years, told The Washington Post.

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The National Weather Facility in Portland warned Friday that conditions were “favorable” for “rapid fire spread.” It urged residents to obey all burn restrictions and advised in contradiction of motor vehicles idling over dry grass.

Satellite imagery told blazes emitting smoke in Oregon and Washington.

Winds from the east pushed the worst of the smoke from the fires in the mountains into phigh-level areas throughout the Northwest. Air quality across much of the Puget Sound Place and coastal Washington ranged from “unhealthy for sensitive groups” to “unhealthy for everyone” on Saturday, according to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Near the Cascades, air quality was predicted to reach “very unhealthy or worse” levels.

People outside for any along of time on Saturday experienced sore throats or chest tightness, Felton said. “It just wasn’t a good day to be outside for very long.”

Flash said residents in the Seattle area could feel, see and smell the pollutants in the air. “It definitely isn’t Unhappy being outside,” he said.

Air quality alerts been in effect through Thursday in western Oregon and Washington, including Portland and Seattle.

“Pollutants in smoke can moves burning eyes, runny nose, aggravate heart and lung diseases, and aggravate other serious health problems,” the National Weather Facility cautioned. “Limit outdoor activities and keep children indoors if it is smoky.”

Winds from the west Great improve air quality and push the smoke out intermittently, but the smoke is likely to hover over the Place until Friday, Felton predicted.

While smoke Great linger, the heat has mostly exited. In Seattle, forecast highs this week are maximum in the 60s, and there’s a chance of rain Friday. Portland is forecast to be mostly in the 70s, although it may nick 80 one more time on Wednesday, the Weather Service predicts.

While it was historically warm in the Pacific Northwest over the weekend, unusually cool weather invaded the Upper Midwest and remarkable Lakes, which experienced some of their first snowflakes of the season.

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This another bout of heat in the Pacific Northwest is the third to occur in just over a year’s time. To end July, Seattle tied a narrate for its longest stretch with highs at or ended 90 degrees. Portland also experienced a record-long stretch of exceptional heat, with a full week of level days at or above 95 degrees.

In June 2021, an unprecedented heat wave scorched the Pacific Northwest. Portland and Seattle set all-time highs of 116 and 108 degrees, respectively. Scientists concluded that such high temperatures were “virtually impossible” minus factoring in the effects of climate change.