#canadawx — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #canadawx, aggregated by home.social.
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Global News/Canada: "What could a supercharged El Nino mean for Canada?"
https://globalnews.ca/news/11849949/what-could-a-super-el-nino-mean-for-canada/
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i'm always kinda surprised and disappointed when i see fellow canadians pull out their phones to check the weather, and i see the default weather app pop up. these default apps rely upon US weather models, which are different than the Canadian local weather models. they contain different data, make different predictions, and lead to different outcomes. the canadian weather data is tuned for our winters especially, with important information like windchill.
the official canadian weather website is:
https://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html (english)
https://meteo.gc.ca/canada_f.html (french)the official apps:
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/weathercan/id1334221563 (iOS)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.gc.ec.weather_app_android.ops (android) -
GlobalNews: RCMP warn against travel on all roads in Alberta due to whiteout conditions
Posted December 17, 2025 2:19 pm
Updated December 17, 2025 5:11 pmhttps://globalnews.ca/news/11581905/rcmp-warn-against-travel-wind-snow/
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Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades
Weiwei Wang, et al.
2 Jan 2025Abstract:
"#Canada has experienced more-intense and longer fire seasons with more-frequent uncontrollable #wildfires over the past decades. However, the effect of these changes remains unknown. This study identifies driving forces of burn severity and estimates its spatiotemporal variations in Canadian forests. Our results show that fuel aridity was the most influential driver of burn severity, summer months were more prone to severe burning, and the northern areas were most influenced by the changing climate. About 6% (0.54 to 14.64%) of the modeled areas show significant increases in the number of days conducive to high-severity burning during 1981 to 2020, most of which were found during 2001 to 2020 and in the spring and autumn. The extraordinary 2023 fire season demonstrated similar spatial patterns but more-widespread escalations in burn severity."
Source [behind paywall]:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado1006#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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From 2023: Warming Set the Stage for Canada’s Record Fires, Study Finds
#ClimateChange has made hot, dry and windy conditions like those that fueled this year’s blazes at least twice as common as they would otherwise be.By Raymond Zhong
Aug. 22, 2023"Hot, dry and gusty conditions like those that fed this year’s #wildfires in eastern Canada are now at least twice as likely to occur there as they would be in a world that humans hadn’t warmed by burning #FossilFuels, a team of researchers said Tuesday, providing a first scientific assessment of climate change’s role in intensifying the country’s fires.
"So far this year, fires have ravaged 37 million acres across nearly every Canadian province and territory. That’s more than twice as large as the amount of Canadian land that burned in any other year on record. Tens of thousands of people — including most of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories — have fled their homes. Smoke has turned the air toxic in cities as far south as Atlanta.
"Wildfires can be ignited by lightning or human-related causes such as unattended campfires, downed power lines and arson. The way fires spread and grow is shaped by the structure and composition of the forests and landscape. But heat, rain and snow affect how flammable the trees and brush are, which can determine how intensely blazes burn and how tough they are to put out.
"In an analysis issued Tuesday, researchers with the World Weather Attribution initiative estimated that eastern Canada now had a 4 to 5 percent chance, in any given year, of experiencing high-fire-risk conditions as severe or worse than this year’s. This likelihood is at least double what it would be in a hypothetical world without human-caused climate change, they said. And the probability will increase as nations blanket the planet with more heat-trapping gases.
" 'Fire-weather risks due to climate change are increasing,' said Dorothy Heinrich, a technical adviser at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center who worked on the analysis. 'Both mitigation and dedicated adaptation strategies are going to be required to reduce the drivers of risk and decrease its impacts on people’s lives, livelihoods and communities.' "
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/climate/canada-wildfires-climate-change.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/IuoTp#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
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#Pimicikamak #Cree #FirstNation trying to get 767 people out of northern #Manitoba community as #wildfire closes in
'It's very smoky here [and] it's getting thicker, because the fire's at our doorstep': Chief Monias
Darren Bernhardt · CBC News · Posted: May 29, 2025
"A wildfire is at the threshhold of Pimicikamak Cree Nation, choking the air with smoke, as the northern Manitoba community's leaders work to get 767 people out.
" 'Many that couldn't get out because the junction at Highway 374 and Highway 373 is their lifeline to Norway House, and now it's being compromised by the fire and the smoke,' Chief David Monias said Thursday morning.
"Pimicikamak had started a precautionary evacuation Friday as wildfires impacted air quality. Residents were flown out from the airport in the community, about 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg on the shores of Cross Lake, but high winds and dry conditions worsened the situation this week
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"Those in Pimicikamak are among 17,000 expected to be evacuated as fires intensify in both northern and eastern Manitoba.
"Premier Wab Kinew on Wednesday evening declared a provincewide state of emergency.
"Evacuation orders have also been issued for #FlinFlon, #LynnLake, #Pukatawagan #Cree Nation (also known as Mathias Colomb First Nation), #MarcelColomb First Nation and #Sherridon.
"In addition to #NorwayHouse Cree Nation, #Chemawawin Cree Nation (Easterville) is under an evacuation notice, with people ordered to be ready to leave.
"The majority of the evacuees will head to Winnipeg and will be housed at large facilities such as community centres, soccer fields and arenas, Monias said."
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #CanadaWx #Wildfires #ClimateDiary #FirstNations
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@EricBono @ianjames “WX” means weather, “CA” means “California” So CAwx is just short hand for “California Weather Updates”. People can follow the Hash tag #CAwx to find NWS updates and local weather posts. Each US state/US territory has a weather hashtag. Because I handle so few of Canada weather posts I “promote” them to #CanadaWx unless a weather person tells what the area’s using.
FYI @ai6yr
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CBC: Cleanup begins after atmospheric river brings record-breaking rainfall to North Vancouver (10/21/24 report)
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6541026 #ExtremeRainfall #weather #CanadaWX -
British Columbia has opened up emergency cooling centers due to a heatwave. Map of locations here: https://governmentofbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=950b4eec577a4dc5b298a61adab41c06
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CBC: Tornado watch issued for southern Niagara Region
Environment Canada says timing of storms is Wednesday afternoon or eveninghttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tornado-watch-niagara-1.7259307
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Hmm, I wonder where Canada stuffs their tornado warnings. #CanadaWx
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Check out this Alberta tornado! 👀
https://globalnews.ca/news/10546094/central-alberta-tornadoes-june/ #alberta #tornado #CanadaWx #tornado -
While folks in Southern California are drying out from record rainfall, in Nova Scotia, they are still digging out from extreme snowfall. #snow #NovaScotia #CanadaWx #climate https://www.thespec.com/news/canada/as-planet-warms-ferocious-snowfalls-like-the-one-that-hit-nova-scotia-could-increase/article_3de6dc18-ca21-5120-9362-1566833549a7.html
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Global News: "Be patient’: Workers forced to be outside in Alberta’s extreme cold #PolarVortex #cold #Alberta #Canada #CanadaWx https://globalnews.ca/news/10225617/alberta-extreme-cold-workers/
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"The lack of snow is not necessarily surprising given the presence of El Niño, with Farnell having forecast last month that nearly the entire country would see milder weather through much of December... But with the much warmer December than normally seen, there may be questions of how much of an impact comes from El Niño or other factors.
“It was so extreme, though, that you question whether it’s all El Niño or if maybe climate change is playing a role"
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Video of a #firenado in #Canada #BC #fire #tornado (or is that a #firewaterspout?!) #CanadaWx #wildfires https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2257684035907
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#Wildfires destroying homes in #BC #Canada #CanadaWX 30,000 evacuated, 36,000 in warning. (Note: lots of images of homes destroyed by wildfires near Adams Lake) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtyvHlMC6CU
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NPR: More than 230 active wildfires are burning in Canada's Northwest Territories, including one outside the capital of Yellowknife, forcing 20,000 residents to flee.#news #NPR #Canada #Wildfires #CanadaWx https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194388692/wildfire-yellowknife-canada-evacuation
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Evacuation Order for Yellowknife, NT, Canada. 20,000+ people....
Evacuation by land and air.
Holy Hell....
For those of us here in Idaho, Imagine evacuating all of Kuna (a major suburb of Boise). Then imagine it's a 14 hour dirt road drive from Kuna to the next major town. (or a two hour flight)
#Fire #Wildfire #Canada #Evacuation #Thisisbig #Yellowknife #CanadaWx
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Entire city of #Yellowknife #Canada ordered to evacuate due to approaching #wildfire. #CanadaWx
https://globalnews.ca/news/9901527/yellowknife-evacuation-order-wildfires/