Canada’s 2024 wildfire season expected to be even worse than last year’s
The warm fall and winter conditions throughout the country, as well as droughts, and minimal snowfall are all factors that contribute to a more intense fire season
Last year’s wildfire season broke records for its intensity and resulted in Canada’s first-ever evacuation of an entire capital city — Yellowknife. Smoke from the fires also impacted air quality not only nationally, but in the United States as well. Coming out of an intense season that garnered internal attention, federal officials are warning Canadians to prepare for another record-breaking year.
Due to a mild winter and warmer year, this wildfire season is looking to be worse, not better, than the last. Here’s what to expect for the spring and summer, what to know about the fires, and how officials are preparing for what’s to come.
What can we expect for the 2024 wildfire season?
“The temperature trends are very concerning. With the heat and dryness across the country we can expect that the wildfire season will start sooner and end later and potentially be more explosive,” said Minister of Emergency Preparedness Harjit Sajjan, at an April 10 technical briefing.
Early spring forecasts predict an above normal fire risk for western Canada, eastern Ontario, and southern Quebec in April. In May, the Prairies, eastern and southern British Columbia, northern Ontario, and western Quebec will be affected. Looking into the summer, long-range fire forecasts are unclear, as forecasting the precipitation that affects these conditions is difficult.
The climate is changing. It always has, it always will. Scientific evidence exists proving that raging wildfires tore through Antarctica 75 million ago during one of the warmest periods on earth. That’s just one example of climate change. Another?
In 2022 in a panic inducing production CNN waxed on about the “megadrought” that caused the Lake Mead (the largest manmade reservoir in North America) water level to drop around 170 feet since 2000. Today, an insignificant by historical standards mere 4 years later it is “on the mend” and rapidly refilling for 3 straight years now. Contrary to all of the so-called expert predictions of unavoidable doom and gloom for the and 25M people who relied on this water supply for their very existence. My point is don’t allow the emotionally driven fact challenged environmental whack jobs, their lefty (give us more of your money) politicians and their on retainer media scare you. Again remember/never forget how effectively fear worked for the the Covid lockdown and the experimental injections. Take a deep breath, put Chicken Little back in the coop. Tune out the fear merchant politicians and turn off their accomplices in the media.
Human activity, technology and products such as camp fires, power lines, agricultural burning and off-road vehicles typically cause more fires in the early part of fire season, while lightning causes those in the late summer.
Last year (2022), 49% of wildfires across the country were caused by human activity.
The left knows this to be true…
“Fear is one of the most powerful human emotions. While highly useful in situations where threat of immediate harm exists, it is the most debilitating and dangerous of emotions when present unnecessarily.”
Canadian wildfires causes: human activities and climate change (usatoday.com)