\u0022The table has been set\u0022 for significant wildfire activity this summer, an official with the B.C. Wildfire Service says. Find out more.
The Donnie Creek wildfire currently burning across more than 1,700 square kilometres north of Fort St. John offers a perfect example, he said.
Forty or 50 mm of rain sounds substantial, “but given the underlying drought conditions, it’s only a drop in a very empty bucket,” he said. Matt Loney, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said it was either the first- or second-warmest May ever recorded for at least 15 stations in B.C.
The province then headed into an early winter freeze and when spring 2023 arrived “we uncovered even deeper drought conditions” in many areas, he said.“I think we’re lining up for what could be a very active fire season.”This year is “one of the rare occurrences where all the droughts, no matter how you define them, be it rivers, soil moisture, or the fuels, the forests, are all very clearly indicating elevated drought” in pockets of the province, MacDonald said.
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