Severe weather

Waves come ashore, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Hampton Beach, N.H. Severe conditions were predicted across parts of New England and hurricane conditions could hit the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where the storm, Lee, downgraded early Saturday from hurricane to post-tropical cyclone, was expected to make landfall later in the day.(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Atlantic storm Lee delivers high winds and rain before warnings called off

Forecasters predict it will disappear early this week

 

This satellite image provided by CSU/CIRA-NOAA shows hurricane Lee in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, September 15, 2023. Residents of the Maritimes are being warned to prepare for damaging winds, large waves, flooding and power outages as hurricane Lee is expected to transform into a large, powerful post-tropical storm Saturday after entering Canadian waters. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-CSU/CIRA-NOAA

Hurricane watch extended as Lee looms large over Atlantic Canada

Hurricane Lee is expected to move into western Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick Saturday

 

Residents of western Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick are being warned to prepare for power outages and localized flooding as hurricane Lee is expected to transition to a powerful post-tropical storm on Saturday as it makes landfall in the region. This photo provided by Austin Rebello shows fallen trees from a storm that passed on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 in Killingly, Conn. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-HO, Austin Rebello

Parts of Atlantic Canada under hurricane watch as Lee heads to landfall

Residents warned of possible outages, flooding in western Nova Scotia, southern New Brunswick

 

This satellite image provided by CIRA/NOAA shows hurricane Lee in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, September 11, 2023. The Canadian Hurricane Centre says hurricane Lee could make landfall this weekend anywhere from Maine to southeastern Nova Scotia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-CIRA/NOAA

Hurricane Lee expected to land this weekend in Maine or Nova Scotia

Category 3 storm gathering near Bermuda, headed for Canada’s East Coast

This satellite image provided by CIRA/NOAA shows hurricane Lee in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, September 11, 2023. The Canadian Hurricane Centre says hurricane Lee could make landfall this weekend anywhere from Maine to southeastern Nova Scotia. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-CIRA/NOAA
This satellite image provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, at 4:50 p.m. EDT. Though the track of hurricane Lee remains unclear, anxiety created by powerful storms is a growing reality on the East Coast — especially in communities that felt Fiona’s wrath last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NOAA via AP

Canada’s watchful east coast tracking Hurricane Lee

Unease present in the wake of the devastation wrought by Fiona last year

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Lee, right, in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, at 4:50 p.m. EDT. Though the track of hurricane Lee remains unclear, anxiety created by powerful storms is a growing reality on the East Coast — especially in communities that felt Fiona’s wrath last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NOAA via AP
In this image from video provided by Rebecca Barger a vehicle drives through mud at the Burning Man festival site in Black Rock, Nev., on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. An unusual late-summer storm stranded thousands at the week-long event. (Rebecca Barger/@rebeccabargerphoto via AP)

Burning Man party-goers shaking off the mud and heading home

Tens of thousands stranded at annual festival after rain turns desert into mud

In this image from video provided by Rebecca Barger a vehicle drives through mud at the Burning Man festival site in Black Rock, Nev., on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. An unusual late-summer storm stranded thousands at the week-long event. (Rebecca Barger/@rebeccabargerphoto via AP)
Jewell Baggett stands beside a Christmas decoration she recovered from the wreckage of her mother’s home, as she searches for anything salvageable from the trailer home her grandfather had acquired in 1973 and built multiple additions on to over the decades, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., after the passage of Hurricane Idalia, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Tropical Storm Idalia fades leaving U.S. residents to count the cost

Florida governor says Idalia was far less destructive than initially feared

Jewell Baggett stands beside a Christmas decoration she recovered from the wreckage of her mother’s home, as she searches for anything salvageable from the trailer home her grandfather had acquired in 1973 and built multiple additions on to over the decades, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., after the passage of Hurricane Idalia, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
<div>As wildfires rage on in Western Canada, a communications and broadcasting policy expert says the national weather alerting system should account for a wider range of extreme climate-related events. A fallen tree burns at the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</div>

Broaden Canada’s weather alert system to account for wildfires, expert urges

As wildfires rage in western Canada, a communications and broadcasting policy expert…

<div>As wildfires rage on in Western Canada, a communications and broadcasting policy expert says the national weather alerting system should account for a wider range of extreme climate-related events. A fallen tree burns at the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</div>
Many Okanagan cities broke single-day temperature records on Tuesday, Aug. 15. (Monique Tamminga/Western News)

8 Okanagan cities experience temperature records as heat wave soars across B.C.

Out of the eight cities, Kamloops peaked at 39.6 C

Many Okanagan cities broke single-day temperature records on Tuesday, Aug. 15. (Monique Tamminga/Western News)
Portable air conditioners are seen at a store in Vancouver, on Saturday, August 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Air conditioners ‘a necessity’ as B.C. breaks nearly century-old heat records

Lytton registered the hottest temperature in B.C. — 41.5 C on Monday

Portable air conditioners are seen at a store in Vancouver, on Saturday, August 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
A firefighter directs water on a grass fire burning on an acreage behind a residential property in Kamloops, B.C., Monday, June 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Forecasted winds pose biggest wildfire threat amid heat wave

BC Wildfire Service expects the worst impact of heat to be felt later this week

A firefighter directs water on a grass fire burning on an acreage behind a residential property in Kamloops, B.C., Monday, June 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
People dance and gather at English Bay Beach during a heat wave, in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, June 21, 2021. Advocates for renters in British Columbia say it’s time to consider setting a maximum temperature for rental housing, to protect already vulnerable tenants from increasingly rising heat. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

As B.C. temperatures soar, advocates call for rules to keep rental housing cool

Municipal bylaws mandate minimum rental unit temperatures not maximum

People dance and gather at English Bay Beach during a heat wave, in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, June 21, 2021. Advocates for renters in British Columbia say it’s time to consider setting a maximum temperature for rental housing, to protect already vulnerable tenants from increasingly rising heat. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
A person cools off in Lynn Creek in North Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday, July 6, 2023. Health authorities as well as local and provincial governments across British Columbia are providing guidance on how best to deal with a sweltering heat wave that began in British Columbia’s southern coast this weekend is expected to expand into the Interior starting today.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Heat wave that hit B.C.’s south coast expected to spread to Interior

Highs in the 30s expected across the southern portions of the province

A person cools off in Lynn Creek in North Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday, July 6, 2023. Health authorities as well as local and provincial governments across British Columbia are providing guidance on how best to deal with a sweltering heat wave that began in British Columbia’s southern coast this weekend is expected to expand into the Interior starting today.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Buildings are seen in floodwater following a major rain event in Halifax on Saturday, July 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Extreme weather risk changing Canada’s insurance industry, raising costs

Unusually high premium hikes happening in the West and parts of Atlantic Canada

Buildings are seen in floodwater following a major rain event in Halifax on Saturday, July 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Storm clouds pass by the Peace tower and Parliament hill Tuesday August 18, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Tornado touches down near Ottawa Thursday evening, Environment Canada says

Researchers call for storm-resistant measures in provincial building codes

Storm clouds pass by the Peace tower and Parliament hill Tuesday August 18, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
FILE - A man with a cooling pad on his forehead takes a nap on a bench on a sweltering day in Beijing, July 24, 2023. At about summer’s halfway point, the record-breaking heat and weather extremes are both unprecedented and unsurprising, hellish yet boring in some ways, scientists say. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Here’s how hot and extreme the summer has been, and it’s only halfway over

‘How on God’s Earth are we still burning fossil fuels after witnessing all this?’

FILE - A man with a cooling pad on his forehead takes a nap on a bench on a sweltering day in Beijing, July 24, 2023. At about summer’s halfway point, the record-breaking heat and weather extremes are both unprecedented and unsurprising, hellish yet boring in some ways, scientists say. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
Tony Berastegui Jr., 15, right, and his sister Giselle Berastegui, 12, drink water as temperatures are expected to hit 46 C on Monday, July 17, 2023, in Phoenix. Much of the populous U.S. northeast is facing temperatures Friday and Saturday that will feel like 40 C or higher. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Ross D. Franklin

‘Global boiling’ era arrives as U.S. reels under month of extreme heat

July almost certain to be record-breaking, more than 150 million residents under heat alerts

Tony Berastegui Jr., 15, right, and his sister Giselle Berastegui, 12, drink water as temperatures are expected to hit 46 C on Monday, July 17, 2023, in Phoenix. Much of the populous U.S. northeast is facing temperatures Friday and Saturday that will feel like 40 C or higher. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Ross D. Franklin
This summer has seen Environment Canada heat warnings for parts of the country used to baking in the heat, but also in places unaccustomed to extended periods of hot weather. Richar Gallego learns to paddle board on the Peel Basin, in Montreal, Friday, June 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Not all heat warnings equal: 5 things about Canada’s hot weather alert system

Environment Canada applies different parameters for different parts of the country

This summer has seen Environment Canada heat warnings for parts of the country used to baking in the heat, but also in places unaccustomed to extended periods of hot weather. Richar Gallego learns to paddle board on the Peel Basin, in Montreal, Friday, June 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
The cacophony caused by raging wildfires, searing heat and record-setting floods is caused by climate change, as world temperatures persistently increase, say experts. People stand on a hill surveying cars abandoned in floodwater in a mall parking lot following a major rain event in Halifax on Saturday, July 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Climate change: Correlation between wildfires, flooding in Nova Scotia

‘What happens at 1.5 or two degrees, that’s what we need to be really concerned about’

The cacophony caused by raging wildfires, searing heat and record-setting floods is caused by climate change, as world temperatures persistently increase, say experts. People stand on a hill surveying cars abandoned in floodwater in a mall parking lot following a major rain event in Halifax on Saturday, July 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
A person tries to cool off in the shade as temperatures are expected to hit 116-degrees Fahrenheit, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Phoenix. The extreme heat scorching Phoenix set a record Tuesday, the 19th consecutive day temperatures hit at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Tornado damages Pfizer plant, as scorching heat and floods sock US

Large manufacturing complex was damaged by twister in North Carolina

A person tries to cool off in the shade as temperatures are expected to hit 116-degrees Fahrenheit, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Phoenix. The extreme heat scorching Phoenix set a record Tuesday, the 19th consecutive day temperatures hit at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)