Wildfires, floods and smoke: Canada’s top 2023 weather stories
Global News
Environment Canada unveiled its top weather stories for 2023. The presenting climatologist said human caused-climate was partially to blame and said more extreme weather will come.
Canadians saw the full might of Mother Nature in 2023, from floods to fires and smoke to storms.
On Wednesday, Environment Canada, the country’s weather forecaster and researcher, announced the top 10 weather stories.
“This is the year the Canadian landscape really took a hit from extreme weather,” senior climatologist Dave Phillips told reporters at during a virtual news conference.
And he said one culprit was largely to blame.
“I think the evidence is clear and consistent that human-caused climate change is making weather extremes more extreme and leading to more catastrophes at home and abroad”
Never before has so much of Canada burned.
Environment Canada’s top story was the record number of wildfires.
Enterprise, a Northwest Territories town, was destroyed in August, along with many other buildings from Nova Scotia to British Columbia’s interior. Thousands of people across the country had to evacuate.
