Environment and Climate Change Canada has released its 22nd edition of Canada’s Top Weather stories.
The list looks at extreme weather events across the country.
British Columbia’s long and most destructive wildfire season was ranked in first.
New Brunswick’s ice storm came in tenth.
2017 was a big year for weather, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. They say property damage from extreme weather cost Canadian insurers and governments millions of dollars.
Wildfires increased 66 per cent, and consumed four times the usual area than in the past.
Canada also had the eighth warmest year on record in 70 years, between December 2016 and November of this year..It saw an increase of 1.4 degrees Celsius above normal temperatures.
Canada’s Top 10 Weather Stories are ranked from one to ten based on factors that include the impact they had on Canada and Canadians, the extent of the area affected, economic effects, and longevity as a top news story.
Environment Canada and Climate Change Canada’s Top 10 Weather Stories for 2017
- British Columbia’s longest and most destructive wildfire season
- Dry and hot in the West
- Spring flooding in Quebec and Ontario
- British Columbia’s cold and snowy winter
- Another Windsor flood: two storms of the century in a year
- Central Canada’s missing summer
- A new storm of the century
- Summer in September
- Newfoundland’s Brier blast
- New Brunswick’s glaze storm
