{"id":22776,"date":"2018-12-20T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=22776"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:53:03","slug":"a-year-of-wild-weather-environment-canada-releases-the-top-10-weather-stories-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/a-year-of-wild-weather-environment-canada-releases-the-top-10-weather-stories-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of wild weather: Environment Canada releases the Top 10 weather stories of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Every year, Environment and Climate Change Canada releases its top ten weather stories. And this year, there was no shortage of extreme weather events across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From coast-to-coast-to-coast, virtually nowhere was spared extreme weather in 2018.But people are most likely to remember the raging wildfires that consumed British Columbia, the number one story on the list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though the fire season had a late start, by Aug. 15, the province had issued a state of emergency as 566 fires<\/a> had ignited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And they just kept on going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of August, approximately 12,985 square kilometres were burning in B.C., beating the worst fire season in the province’s history \u2014 set only one year earlier \u2014 when 12,161 square kilometres burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The disaster didn’t stop at provincial borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smoke from the fires \u2014 combined with those from Washington state, Oregon and California \u2014 drifted straight across the country. For weeks, more than 10 million Canadians, from B.C. to the Atlantic Provinces, were impacted by the smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n