Newspaper clipping
Oct. 27th, 2023 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstorm"2,286,972 hectares – 22,869.7 square kilometers – have burned in the Prince George Fire Centre so far this year.
The highest number of hectares burned on record before this year in the entire province was 1,354,284 in 2018 [...]
We also have to consider our fire centre is 33.6 million hectares in size.”
I'm in the PG fire center.
The ground is frozen and we didn't get substantial rain, so we'll be going into year 3 of drought in spring. Things will be dry under the snow, so like this year we should start pretty quickly unless we get a very rainy spring.
You can walk across the confluence of the Nechako and Fraser rivers right now.
The highest number of hectares burned on record before this year in the entire province was 1,354,284 in 2018 [...]
We also have to consider our fire centre is 33.6 million hectares in size.”
I'm in the PG fire center.
The ground is frozen and we didn't get substantial rain, so we'll be going into year 3 of drought in spring. Things will be dry under the snow, so like this year we should start pretty quickly unless we get a very rainy spring.
You can walk across the confluence of the Nechako and Fraser rivers right now.
