Or, try explaining to Manitoban farmers and growers that the average precipitation over the past three years was “normal”.įloods were another big weather story in 2022, including both traditional snowmelt-ice jamming floods and deluges of heavy rain on frozen ground and a new age flood of an urban kind. It was the year’s deadliest and costliest weather event. Try telling those in southern Ontario and Québec who lost millions of large shade trees on a Saturday afternoon when a derecho – a wind storm they probably had never heard of before - devastated the region. Was 2022 tame? Try convincing residents in Atlantic Canada who faced the wrath of furious Fiona - the most intense, largest and likely the most expensive hurricane ever to enter Canada. The weather in 2022 was much less dramatic compared to the weather the year before – 2021 was the most expensive, disruptive, and destructive years for weather in Canadian history. In 2022, Mother Nature either froze, buried, soaked, smothered, blew or frightened us at various times throughout the year. Not something distant or futuristic, but playing out in our backyards, in our communities and in our country. After years of creeping change, things are starting to look very different.Īs Canadians continue to experience additional climate warming, the wild weather in 2022 may simply be called “normal” decades from now. It’s also about gradual yet relentless changes, such as ongoing declines in ice and snow cover, in sea-level rise. So, how did we get here? Climate change is not just about spectacular heat, torrential floods, super storms, and forest infernos. Depending on the success of these efforts, the world could successfully limit additional global warming to a few tenths of a degree or we could be heading to a world a few degrees warmer with vastly more serious consequences. The world has already experienced about 1.2☌ of global warming since the Industrial Revolution, and we will experience some additional global warming even if the global efforts to limit global warming to the Paris Agreement target are successful. We are no longer living in a period of climate stability but in a period of rapid climate change. In Canada, this means shorter skating seasons, increased frost-free days, longer growing seasons and more severe, extended wildfires these and other changes are reshaping the entire climate landscape into an image many of us are finding hard to recognize. The weather we’ve come to expect doesn’t occur as regularly anymore. When it rains, it often rains much harder. In some cases, weather systems are moving slower than before, leaving more time to wreak havoc.
Around the world, once in a lifetime storms are now happening back-to-back. When it comes to the weather, exceptional has become the ordinary.
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