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'We've never seen this before': B.C. could experience historic drought this summer (www.cheknews.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Epilektoi_Hoplitai@lemmy.ca to c/victoria@lemmy.ca

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“We’ve never seen this before,” said Dave Campbell, the head of the forecast centre, in an interview with CHEK News Monday.

“We are really going to need to see wet weather and persistent wet weather for the next several weeks if we were to avoid significant drought for places like Vancouver Island for later this summer.”

Environment Canada tells CHEK News that wet and persistent weather is not coming in the near future.

Officials are asking people to conserve water now as we head into what could be a history-making drought season.

Not looking forward to this, but I guess it's the new normal for BC's climate going forwards... Likely to also increase the incidence of forest fires, I'd imagine.

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[–] MartianInAHumansBody@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly the last few years seem to show the new normal already is water shortages, and likely more forest fires.

Not sure how hard it would be to get water desalination plants going to top up the reservoirs.