EXTREME HEAT WARNING | What is a heat dome? Environment Canada's senior climatologist breaks it down

Environment Canada Senior Climatologist Dave Phillips explains how a heat dome forms and what to do to find relief during a heat wave.
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[@jptrainor]

Read "extreme" as "normal summer heat wave".

[@WinstonSmithRoom101]

your c0mmie filter is working.

[@mjstecyk]

@@WinstonSmithRoom101 c0mmunism is when government heat advisory. why are conservatives such sn0wflakes?

[@webmario2]

STOP!!!! It’s summer! Every summer we have heat waves, nothing new!

[@alexfrancois7879]

Is there a way that we can pay more tax to avoid this?

[@Damien-Infinity]

Lmao😂👍💯

[@sachadee.6104]

🤣

[@markamd1]

"Heat Dome" "Atmospheric River".... sounds so scary!

[@enchantedape8180]

I'm gonna shelter in place until this heat dome passes. I wonder how much more we should add to taxes for this to end?

[@metcas]

If that sounds scary to you, you need to readjust. Or maybe, you know, actually learn what these terms represent. They're not meant to sound scary at all. They are quite literally what they describe. A dome of heat, and a flow in the atmosphere (otherwise regarded as a river..... not a big stretch.)

[@WhirlyPearly]

As central and southern Alberta is 17 c, crazy weather

[@bertgummer8125]

Extremely summer weather.

[@nicholas2275]

We just get rain in Winnipeg

[@blondelynne9717]

Oh, summer arrives!

[@bradzimmerman3171]

@@SillySongs4Everyone2001Trudeau is bad for the environment

[@MrDavidwilson86]

Also make sure to eat food, it takes energy to sweat.

[@ProJock]

Torrid heat? Pfft, visit Malaysia

[@Ultradude604]

It's late fall/early winter weather out in Vancouver.

[@kefs]

Don't forget to take long cold showers for hours! Especially in Calgary!

[@mico1664]

I'm in Calgary and that psyop is being ignored

[@brendamacdonald1575]

Lol it's summer

[@lorelaigilrour]

Im shocked they havent demanded we stay home to flatten the dome

[@jimmyarbutus2555]

Before this feller described what a heat dome was, I was living like an animal, saying things like "sure is hot out today' and it'snot the heat...it's the humidity. I feel like such a fool.

[@staycee639]

On the lower mainland, Vancouver Island we get lower 30-35 regularly during the summer. When we had our heat dome a few years ago we had in the 40'ies

[@evestevens538]

I am in southern Ontario living in this with no air conditioning. I am sitting here typing this in my home with all the windows open enjoying the breeze

[@Shopkeeper99900]

It’s 39 today in Beijing.

[@SylviusTheMad]

Calgary and Edmonton both have frost advisories today.

[@Damien-Infinity]

Omg its summer,, omg its gonna be hot! Its a crisis,,😜😇🤡🤓😎👍💯

[@missmew5240]

Meanwhile it was snowing in Canmore June 17th

[@ValC-vn5vl]

You could be in Alberta with a polar vortex causing low temperatures with lots of wind! We’ve not had more than 3 days of summer weather.

[@thegreatplague9748]

Uh oh.
I best travel to a warmer climate for my vacation since it looks like a cold summer, again.

[@billclay9511]

Hopefully the smell doesn't travel west

[@winstonsmith935]

Toronto! More like Thunder Dome

[@02bher1]

We have taken to sleeping on our basement parlor. It is so cold down there we need our flannel sheets!

[@frankmajor6435]

lol it’s going to get warm I’m 57 these things happened before and will again happen kinda laugh at this clown thinking it’s new

[@bradzimmerman3171]

Send that weather “west”we wouldn’t complain-enjoy it,better than the alternative OH CANADA 🇨🇦 weather (blame trudeau & guilbeault the runt

[@Dracoool]

Its called "SUMMER"....enjoy it while it lasts.

[@cptkirkp]

..........another historical data does not exist story

[@rgladstone]

It's summer......

[@tomcox2565]

A “ heat dome “ 🤣😂

[@davidm9214]

Really cold wind in northern Alberta

[@mockchicken4432]

Geoengineering

[@chrisministerofsmartarsery3322]

Summer. It’s summer folks.

[@remydavis1502]

This guy borrowed his wife’s glasses hahah

[@davidm9214]

😂

[@isaacgriffin5690]

Summers arrived. Enjoy. Bet the fires will be less since last year's burnt so much... it's almost as of there's a cycle eh?!

[@EyeSee4.8]

The forest fire cycle seems more focused on election years now. 2025 will be crazy.

[@seaotter72]

Sorry i gave all my money to corrupt justin !

[@Scott-kd5ql]

It's called summer.

[@ShaniaHogan]

Heat dome 😂. You mean summers here!!!

[@dinvsl]

16 degrees max. today in Vancouver, “extreme heat”. 😂😂