The warmest winter on record could have far-reaching effects on everything from wildfire season to erosion, climatologists say, while offering a preview of what the season could resemble in the not-so-distant future unless steps are taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Winter comes to a close on Tuesday night – early Wednesday on Canada’s East Coast – with the arrival of the spring equinox. But climatologist David Phillips says it’s almost as if this winter in Canada never happened. “I called it the lost season,” said Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. The warmest winter on […]
Indeed… As a snowboard enthusiast, this season sucked and if the rumours as to be believed, we are in for a mosquito and tick infested summer ahead
Canadian farmers are going to have a rough, drought-filled year.
Alberta is already looking at rationing water resources.
But apareny the oil barons are making record profits and telling everyone there is nothing anyone can do to stop them
Yeah. Always happens. :/
We’ll see. Last year was looking like a disaster, then we got rain in late June and got one of the best hay crops in years, despite fighting fires on our doorstep, and good grain crops.
Weather does strange stuff. An inch of rain at exactly the right time does more than 12 at the wrong time.