Extreme wildfire weather increasing in Western Canada, research says

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The research, conducted by Natural Resources Canada and published Thursday in the journal Nature, says rising temperatures and falling humidity are the biggest…

“Our predictions of the future are showing those same trends,” said lead author Piyush Jain. “We can expect fire weather to get more extreme.Previous research found that fire seasons are getting longer, with an associated increase in the amount of forest burned. Jain and his colleagues wanted to look at how extreme fire risk has changed along with it.

Over the years 1979 to 2020, that index for the interior of British Columbia climbed between 10 and 20 points. Globally, the index has increased by an average of 14 per cent. The researchers found strong correlation between extreme fire weather, temperature and humidity, which affects how dry forest fuels are.Article content

 

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