How Many People Died Because of a Heatwave?

A number of deaths have been attributed to a heatwave in the U.S., including 600 between Canada, Seattle and Portland. "I think really the whole region is pretty lucky that the grid didn't suffer more than it did," he says. But like you said, it's just crazy that this stuff isn't more mainstream,. There was a town in Canada called Litten, which recorded what they say was the highest temperature of the entire region.