Weather fronts bring more rain
It’s likely a lot of Cowichan Lake residents think there’s plenty of water around for the summer of 2017, given the winter we’ve been having. But, according to Cowichan River watcher Parker Jefferson, “We’re just about where we were last year.”
The first heat wave of the season went out with a bang across the province
Temperature records were broken around the province with Vernon breaking an 111-year-old record
Plans are underway for raising the weir: a reflection of widespread concern, says Ken Traynor
Wildfires are sweeping B.C.
We will have more wacky weather in 2018 as the world continues to warm.
As wildfires continue to rage in B.C., there's no rain relief in sight
Victoria Day brought with it a statutory holiday and a new 10-year high in Duncan.
Drought levels have been raised already for parts of the province and Dave Campbell, with the B.C. River Forecast Centre, says the current forecast points to drought conditions provincewide in the coming weeks.
Agassiz broke a record that goes back more than 100 years
Longview Farms just north of Victoria says mild weather a problem for seasonal farming
A Canadian climate scientist says Canada and the world are seeing a pattern of more extreme weather events
There have been 1,249 fires that have burned through roughly 1,173,886 hectares in B.C.
Homeowner Bart Henderson headed back to Haines from Mexico after a fuel-feed line from a heating oil tank to a furnace burst and potentially leaked. “We’ve got a pretty good idea that the cause of the leak was from the hard freeze and then the warm weather,” Pikul said. “There was some frost heaving of the ground and it compromised the feed line.”
Residents say mild weather makes toughing out the rain worthwhile
The Koksilah River is in trouble, with low flows threatening fish populations.
Last weekend's blizzard caused the Haines Borough School District to close Monday after 16 inches of snow fell in less than 24 hours--a record high for daily snowfall according to National Weather Service data.
Two centimetres had fallen in parts of Newfoundland
Many communities have gone weeks without rain this month
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