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Central Canada and northern Canada experiences subarctic and Arctic climates, much of them arid. Those areas are not heavily populated due to the severe climate, where it drops below −20 °C (−4 °F) on most winter days and has a very brief summer season.
In Canada, wildfire season usually starts in May. [20] 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, with temperatures in Canada from May to October 2.2 °C (4 °F) higher than the 1991–2020 average. [24]
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 lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024.
Last year, 2.8 million hectares burned in the province over the course of the entire season. 2023 was Canada's worst ever wildfire season when 18.5 million hectares burned and blazes raged ...
There have been 3,055 fires so far this year in Canada, destroying more than 30,000 square miles - an area twice the size of Switzerland. The fires caused air quality to plummet across large parts ...
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (2011), Vancouver now has a 20% chance of a White Christmas (up from 11%). [40] Vancouver experienced a White Christmas in 2008 after weeks of record breaking cold temperatures and four consecutive snow storms, leaving over 60 cm (24 in) of snow on the ground across Metro Vancouver.
Southern Manitoba has a fairly long frost-free season, consisting of between 120 and 140 days in the Red River Valley. It is also prone to high humidity in the summer months with the extreme of 53.0 °C (127.4 °F) in Carman, which set the highest humidex recorded in Canada. There are three main climatic regions.
The area has witnessed an increased frequency of wildfires, as Canada's wildfire season now starts a month earlier than it used to and the annual area burned is twice what it was in 1970. [46] In 2023, fires in Canada were estimated to have burned seven times the average annual area of the previous 40 years, [ 47 ] releasing 480 megatonnes of ...