Much of the region has been under an orange-level heat warning since this weekend.<\/p>\n
RED LAKE \u2014 Some places have set\u00a0new record highs as temperatures continue to soar in the region.<\/p>\n
Red Lake and Pickle Lake both saw the\u00a0hottest July 12 on record Sunday.<\/p>\n
In Red Lake the mercury hit 36.4 C, three degrees higher than the\u00a02006 record of\u00a033.3 C.<\/p>\n
Pickle Lake set a new high temperature record with 36.1 C, more than two degrees above the\u00a033.7 C high\u00a0seen\u00a0in 1997.<\/p>\n
That’s according to Environment Canada\u2019s Warning Preparedness Meteorologist, Geoff Coulson.<\/p>\n
Much of the Northwest region has been under an orange-level heat warning<\/a> since this weekend.\u00a0In many cases, said Coulson, temperatures are sitting in the mid-30s, with the Humidex making it feel more like the low-40s.<\/p>\n Coulson said that the Kenora area was forecasted at 36 Monday, nearing the record of 38.9 C set in 1936.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is possible some locations in Northwestern Ontario today and tomorrow could be getting into record territory as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause this is one of the more significant heat events of recent times, not everybody is necessarily acclimatized to lots of heat and humidity,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThings may be a little less hot on Tuesday but still above normal, and the warning likely (is) still going to continue for many areas, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n “And then we start to transition out of the high heat and humidity as we get into Wednesday and Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n Heat is not the only thing keeping people indoors, as heavy smoke has set across the region due to numerous wildfires.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe smoke is impacting some communities off and on as the winds blow in from the prairies. So, we\u2019re getting some wildfire smoke being contributed by the forest fire activity in Saskatchewan and Manitoba as well,\u201d said Coulson.<\/p>\n He added that in the coming days, the highest concentrations of wildfire smoke will be between Thunder Bay and Fort Frances due to the fires along the Minnesota border.<\/p>\n \u201cBut again, with the activity in other parts of northwestern Ontario and the activity in Manitoba, we could occasionally see poor air quality due to wildfire smoke in a number of communities in northwestern Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n On Monday,\u00a0the Northwest Health Unit shared tips for extreme heat<\/a>\u00a0warnings published by the Government of Ontario website.<\/p>\n Coulson also stressed the importance of taking frequent breaks and drinking lots of fluids for those who must work outside in these conditions. He added that sports drinks are especially helpful for replacing the electrolytes lost by sweating.<\/p>\n He added that people should keep up-to-date on warnings and statements from Environment Canada, including the possibility of strong thunderstorms that are driven by the humidity.<\/p>\n The current heat wave is the first orange-level heat warning that Northwestern Ontario has seen, Coulson said,\u00a0since the new\u00a0colour-coded weather system\u00a0with its yellow, orange and red levels,\u00a0was established\u00a0last November.<\/a><\/p>\n He added that there would need to be an \u201cextremely rare event\u201d to qualify a red-level heat warning, which has never yet occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much of the region has been under an orange-level heat warning since this weekend. RED LAKE \u2014 Some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-800126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}