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Remember the sun baby from The Teletubbies? That smiling, giggling sun? Montreal can expect some of that vibe on Tuesday.
Expect a high of 17 C during the day, with a UV index of 4, or moderate. At night, a low of 7 C with showers. The average high for April 23 is 12.9 C.
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The Teletubby baby face, by the way, is Jess Smith, who’s in her late 20s now and a mom to her own little sunshine, Poppy.
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Meanwhile in the U.S.
Forget about red hot. A new colour-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer.
The National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday — Earth Day — presented a new online heat risk system that combines meteorological and medical risk factors with a seven-day forecast that’s simplified and colour-coded for a warming world of worsening heat waves.
Magenta is the worst and deadliest of five heat threat categories, hitting everybody with what the agencies are calling “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief.” It’s a step higher than red, considered a major risk, which hurts anyone without adequate cooling and hydration and has impacts reverberating through the health care system and some industries. Red is used when a day falls within the top five per cent hottest in a particular location for a particular date; when other factors come into play, the alert level may bump even higher to magenta, weather service officials said.
On the other hand, pale green is little to no risk. Yellow is minor risk, mostly to the very young, old, sick and pregnant. Orange is moderate risk, mostly hurting people who are sensitive to heat, especially those without cooling, such as the homeless.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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