Tag Archives: Weather
Yukon power grid under 'significant' strain as deep freeze grips Western Canada
WHITEHORSE - Bitter cold in the Yukon is straining the power grid and the territory's energy minister says it may get worse as demand peaks and temperature records fall. Environment Canada has issued ...
Dec 23, 2025
Winter wallop continues across Canada, cancelling classes and stranding trucks
WINNIPEG - Winter continued its late-December march east across Canada Friday, closing classes and stranding trucks. Schools in many areas of southern Manitoba were closed for the second day in a row ...
Dec 19, 2025
A look at Environment Canada's top 10 weather events for 2025
Environment Canada has released its annual list of top 10 weather events. Here's the list for 2025: 1. Canada's second-worst wildfire year on record More than 89,000 square kilometres of land was burn...
Dec 18, 2025
Manitoba wildfires, Arctic Ocean storm among Canada's top weather events for 2025
Behemoth wildfires forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes across Canada, making it the most impactful weather event in Environment Canada's top 10 list this year. An estimated 89,000 s...
Dec 18, 2025
Winter storm hits Prairies, closing schools and universities in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - Vehicles were stranded in snow, schools and highways were closed, and some government services were delayed as an Alberta clipper continued to move eastward across the Prairies Thursday. Th...
Dec 18, 2025
Fraser Valley flood cleanup begins, as latest blast of rain swells B.C. rivers
The cleanup is starting in British Columbia's Fraser Valley as water that flowed across the border from the Nooksack River in Washington state recedes, but the flood threat remains for several B.C. ri...
Dec 15, 2025
B.C. braces for 'high impact' rain in flood-struck Fraser Valley and beyond
British Columbia is bracing for another "high impact" deluge of rain that's forecast to hit the province's Fraser Valley, after intense downpours and cross-border outflows last week inundated Abbotsfo...
Dec 14, 2025
Rain warnings as wet weather hits B.C.'s flood-soaked Fraser Valley
ABBOTSFORD - Rainfall warnings have gone up across British Columbia's flood-drenched Fraser Valley as another wave of soaking weather hits the region. Environment Canada says the valley, including Abb...
Dec 14, 2025
Many evacuation orders, alerts lifted as floodwaters recede in B.C.'s Fraser Valley
ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford, B.C., resident Teresa Vogel showed up Saturday at Delair Park, where her son plays baseball, to see the damage from floodwaters for herself after heavy rain flooded parts of t...
Dec 13, 2025
Abbotsford mayor blasts feds for flooding 'inaction' as water starts receding
ABBOTSFORD - The mayor of flood-struck Abbotsford, B.C., says he is disappointed and frustrated with the federal government over what he calls "inaction" on cross-border flooding that has repeatedly i...
Dec 12, 2025