Cooling centres open in US Pacific Northwest in anticipation for record heat wave

Cooling centres have started opening across the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Social service providers working with the homeless in Portland, Ore., have been handing out supplies on Friday to help people cool off after officials warned of "life-threatening heat" in the coming days that could shatter high-temperature records.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued excessive heat warnings and watches across nearly all of Oregon and Washington state, along with parts of California and Idaho, telling residents that the punishing conditions could be fatal.

Temperatures have soared due to a high-pressure dome that has built over the upper northwestern United States and Canada, the NWS said, similar to the atmospheric conditions that punished California and U.S. Southwestern states earlier this month.

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