"Until last week western #Canada had been enduring a cold spring but the rapid onset of #unseasonably high temperatures, in places 10-15C above the average for early May, is causing #fires and #flooding."
Wonder what it takes for #Alberta and Albertans to connect the dots.
SECOND large #wildfire near population center:
"About 22,000 people - roughly half the population in #Canada's #NorthwestTerritories - are now displaced in the country's worst fire season on record.
A separate blaze in the west, that threatens #Kelowna, #BritishColumbia, has grown one hundredfold in 24 hours.
The fast-moving fire is bearing down on a city with a population of about 150,000 people, and officials are already reporting "significant structural loss","
"The #fires in [#Kelowna] moved so rapidly on Friday that the number of people under evacuation order went from 4,500 to 15,000 in an hour, while another 20,000 were under evacuation alert. The province currently accounts for over a third of #Canada's 1,062 active fires."