Fires to floods: How extreme weather has played out in B.C. in 2021
Global News
The dramatic shift in the weather events over the span of four months is unprecedented for Canada, meteorologists say.
Catastrophic and extreme weather events have wreaked havoc in British Columbia this year.
Within a matter of about four months, the province has gone from experiencing a record-setting heat wave with raging wildfires to heavy flooding, which has forced mass evacuations.
The dramatic shift in the weather system is unprecedented for Canada, experts say.
“It’s extremely unusual,” said Anthony Farnell, Global News’s chief meteorologist.
“I don’t remember ever seeing this in Canada, where you have those two extremes, from dry heat and then the fires and then over the same exact areas this record amount of rainfall.”
From severe drought that kicked in at the end of June to the province’s latest atmospheric river, B.C. has undergone a “drastic change,” said Armel Castellan, a warning preparedness meteorologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada.
“This summer was extremely dry and warm, and we flipped that switch about the 14th of September … when things started to get very wet and without really much of a relent.”
Here’s how it has played out.
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