“The components of a warmer future were encapsulated in this fire season.” — Wildfire expert Michael Flannigan
The remnants of a hurricane that battered parts of Mexico and California this week could pose a “double-edged sword” for fire-ravaged British Columbia, a B.C. Wildfire Service official said Monday.
Alyssa Charbonneau, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said the heavier rainfall is expected to hit the Kootenays and the Columbia Valley, with lighter rain forecast for the Okanagan. The province’s wildfire season started especially early, Flannigan said, with the Donnie Creek Fire near Fort Nelson — B.C.’s largest recorded wildfire at 5,715 square kilometres — sparked by lightning in May.
“We just saw it jump a big, bloody lake,” Flannigan said of the flames that jumped Okanagan Lake, forcing thousands to flee their homes.
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