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Environment Canada labels 2021 most violent and destructive weather year on record

It’s been the most violent and destructive weather year on record.

That’s the judgment of Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, David Phillips, as he releases the agency’s Top Ten weather events for 2021.

The record-breaking heatwave that scorched British Columbia this summer took the top spot on the list.

Number two…..B-C’s destructive rainstorms that set off flooding and landslides last month.

Coming in at Number Three was last summer’s drought over much of the prairies.

Phillips says in the 26 years he’s been compiling the report, Canada hasn’t seen such a cycle of destructive weather events……a reflection, he says, of the effects of climate change.

with files from Vista Radio news wire

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