It’s already a large fire year in Canada: Weather watch

Burned spruce trees on a backdrop of orange vegetation

photo by Rachael Treharne.

It’s already a large fire year in Canada: Weather watch

Burned spruce trees on a backdrop of orange vegetation

Fire season is underway in Canada. It tends to start early in Alberta and forests do burn, but the difference this year is one of scale: 2023 is an “already large fire year and it’s only mid-May,” said Brendan Rogers, an associate scientist who studies fires in Canada and Alaska’s boreal forests at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

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