The Pacific Northwest’s blazing hot summer of 2021 was the warmest of the last millennium.
in the Pacific Northwest in 2021 helped make that summer a record breaker for the region . Now, tree ring data from the area’s forests reveal that the summer of 2021 was also the region’s hottest of the last millennium.
Based on modern meteorological records for the area, the scientists also found that such an extremely high average temperature has only a 1-in-25,000 chance of occurring in any one particular year.
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