‘This is really a spell of weather’: Dave Phillips on heat warnings across West Coast

Senior Climatologist with Environment Canada, Dave Philips discusses heat warnings across B.C. and Alta. expected to stretch for a week.

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36 comments

    1. @Curtiss Flamence ” no…it’s not. At all.”
      Yes it is: Pre-2020 data the top 5 hottest years on record were:
      2016
      2019
      2015
      2017
      2018

      2020 was apparently one of the top 3 hottest years on record and 2021 was apparently in the top 7, but I’m less familiar with those sources.

      Outside of cataclysmic events the temperature on the planet has never risen at this rate before.

  1. Same weather we get every Time this year, I have copies of recent weather and nothings changed, not as many fires yet that’s all.

    1. Same weather we get every time? Uh, no, it’s getting hotter, we had (again) record shattering high temperatures in 2021.

      Pre-2020 data the top 5 hottest years on record were:
      2016
      2019
      2015
      2017
      2018

      2020 was apparently one of the top 3 hottest years on record and 2021 was apparently in the top 7, but I’m less familiar with those sources.

    2. @Pokarot the heat is wonderful isn’t it.. you’ll be bit ching it’s to cold in the winter

    3. @Pokarot strange never use to miss days of work because equipment stopped working from the cold, last 3 years been missing 7 days every winter because of it

  2. Wow, it’s hot outside who would’ve thought in summer!

    Every day, the same headline…

    Just point to the obvious, and say it’s a problem?

    1. Yeah, record breaking temperatures and each year consistently being in the top 10 of hottest years on record isn’t just about it, “Being summer.”.

    1. @William Munny Pre-2020 data the top 5 hottest years on record were:
      2016
      2019
      2015
      2017
      2018

      That’s not “in my mind”, the problem here is that you’re speaking on a subject that you KNOW you’re not educated enough on.

  3. yes in the summer it gets hotter. i know you want to create news content but dont over exaggerate things.

    1. Pre-2020 data the top 5 hottest years on record were:
      2016
      2019
      2015
      2017
      2018

      2020 was apparently one of the top 3 hottest years on record and 2021 was apparently in the top 7, but I’m less familiar with those sources.

  4. of course no mention of the earths protective magnetic field….let alone the cyclical sun strength….alas 8 billion humans and climbing.

  5. Im in Manitoba right now, 25 degrees not too hot. Im flying back home to Kelowna BC tomorrow , super excited to be working on roofs this week in +40

  6. It’s nothing when comparing to last year, 49C in some places. Even in Europe many countries have reached 45C last week.

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