A heat dome in the Pacific Northwest that raised temperatures to 121 degrees Fahrenheit this past week caused blackouts, deaths and cooked clams on a Washington State beach.
Hama Hama Oyster company, a family-run shellfish farm, shared images to social media of their clam beds in Hood Canal that are littered with open shells and dead clams that were baked to death by the heat.
Lissa Monberg, Marketing Director of her family’s Hama Hama Company, told DailyMail.com: 'The epic heatwave is something no one has seen and then we had a low tide that was as far as it has been in 15 years and it happened mid-day.
'They [the clams] look like they had just been cooked, like they were ready to eat.'
'It is too early to tell [how many], we have to wait for the next string of low tides.'
Images of the clam grave shows dozens, perhaps hundreds, of empty shells littering the beach, all of which were opened by heat stress.
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Hama Hama Oyster company, a family-run shellfish farm, shared images of their clam beds in Hood Canal that are littered with open shells and dead clams that were baked to death by the heat
The historic heatwave has its grips on parts of Canada, Oregon and Washington - where temperatures surpassed a record of 121 degrees - as well as the Northern Great Basin, Northern Idaho and parts of northwest Nevada and northern California.
Weather officials say this heat dome, which is caused by a high-pressure jet stream trapping the hot weather in place.
It has killed hundreds of people, but is also massacring marine life that call beaches in
