U.S. weather presenter’s coverage of Canadian wildfires has intensified
Global News
This year's fire season — the second worst since the 2023 wildfire season — has seen wildfires consume 3.7 million hectares, six times the area of Prince Edward Island.
Three American TV weather presenters say their viewers’ appetite is soaring for information on the swaths of wildfire smoke drifting in from the Canadian Prairies.
“The smoke has really dominated our weather forecasting headlines,” says Jacob Morse, a meteorologist for KFYR-TV in Bismarck, N.D.
Morse said North Dakota has been hazy all week due to smoke coming from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where fires have been raging for more than two weeks, forcing more than 30,000 people from their homes.
“We’ve been talking about it constantly. We’re educating viewers on where the fires are and then why the smoke comes here (and the) communities impacted,” he said.
Eric Snitil, chief meteorologist for WROC-TV in Rochester, N.Y., says a few years ago, his news network had two or three smoke graphics it projected on its green screens, mainly because of wildfires elsewhere in the United States.
“Now we couldn’t be building these fast enough because of Canada,” Snitil said.
“It’s forcing us meteorologists to not just look out for weather in our own backyard here in New York.
He said the appetite from viewers has grown because smoke affects such a large number of people at one time.
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