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The 2023 fires were compared to the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire [21] [22] and the 2021 Lytton wildfire. [23] The 2023 fire season was mainly driven by anthropogenic climate change. [24] Climate change has made weather warmer and drier, raising wildfire risk as vegetation is more flammable under these conditions.
The 2024 wildfires in Canada began as an extension of the record-setting 2023 wildfires. The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that had extended into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024. [2][3] By early May, large wildfires had broken out in Alberta ...
English: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2023], processed by Pierre Markuse Fire in Saskatchewan, Canada (Lat: 56.379, Lng: -107.972) - 12 June 2023 Image is about 35 kilometers wide
The 2023 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. ... Weather of 2023; References This page was last edited on 10 February 2024, at ...
2023 Alberta wildfires: Wildfires North and Central Alberta: Prairies Unknown Unknown Series of upwards of 750 wildfires across the province of Alberta, still ongoing. Smoke could be seen from as far away as Sweden. [53] [54] [55] 2023 March 30 2023 St. Lawrence River River boat disaster Capsizing: Akwesasne, Quebec: Eastern Canada 8 1 person ...
2023 Canadian wildfires: Canada (10 provinces and 3 territories) [85] Largest Canadian wildfire season in recorded history. 2023 14,000+ acres (5,556+ ha) 2023 Hawaii wildfires: Hawaii Deadliest wildfire in recorded Hawaii history, referred to as worst natural disaster in history of Hawaii by Governor Josh Green. [86] 2023 11,020 acres (4,460 ha)
Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, and Greenwood, British Columbia. 42.2 °C (108 °F) Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. −53.3 °C (−64 °F) 1928. Lillooet, British Columbia and Greenwood, British Columbia. 41.7 °C (107 °F) Vanderhoof, British Columbia & Fort Vermilion, Alberta.
This page documents all tornadoes confirmed by Environment Canada and the University of Western Ontario 's Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) in Canada throughout 2023. Based on statistical modelling by Sills et al. (2012), an average of 230 tornadoes likely occur across the country each year; however, only 61 of these are actually documented ...