British Columbia's record floods follow record heat
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:34 am
Princeton BC Mayor Spencer Coyne had emotion in his voice Monday morning when he described the flooding catastrophe in his town.
"I've been here all my life. We've never had a flood like this yet. I talked to a gentleman today, been here 65 years, he said he's never seen one like this," Coyne said.
Story ... https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... n-Tulameen
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The floods follow record heatwaves last year that saw BC records broken by several degrees Celsisus. The towns Lytton burned to the ground and there were vast wildfires. Princeton itself set a new heat record of 42.7C, previously 38C set in 2015.
The 2021 BC heat records ... https://bc.ctvnews.ca/temperature-recor ... -1.5490093
It has happened before ... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.4659523 .... but will it happen more often under climate change? British Columbia had been one of the areas some people planned to inhabit to escape climate change.
"I've been here all my life. We've never had a flood like this yet. I talked to a gentleman today, been here 65 years, he said he's never seen one like this," Coyne said.
Story ... https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton ... n-Tulameen
Mudslide closes highway, other highways cut off ... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6248999
The floods follow record heatwaves last year that saw BC records broken by several degrees Celsisus. The towns Lytton burned to the ground and there were vast wildfires. Princeton itself set a new heat record of 42.7C, previously 38C set in 2015.
The 2021 BC heat records ... https://bc.ctvnews.ca/temperature-recor ... -1.5490093
It has happened before ... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.4659523 .... but will it happen more often under climate change? British Columbia had been one of the areas some people planned to inhabit to escape climate change.