{"id":87562,"date":"2026-06-14T02:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/87562\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T02:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:47:14","slug":"abnormally-dry-conditions-cover-a-quarter-of-canada-to-start-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/87562\/","title":{"rendered":"Abnormally dry conditions cover a quarter of Canada to start summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of the B.C. Interior found itself mired in a moderate or severe drought to start June, with moderate drought also beginning to develop across the coast near Vancouver and Victoria.<\/p>\n

\"Western<\/p>\n

Dry conditions, warm temperatures, and a fast-melting snowpack contributed to B.C.\u2019s worsening trend.<\/p>\n

Farther east, conditions remained largely unchanged on the Prairies throughout May, with a severe drought continuing for a small swath of southern Alberta. The time period for this analysis took place before flooding rains swamped the Prairies<\/a> during the second week of June.<\/p>\n

Eastern half of Canada largely in good shape<\/p>\n

We often see large swings in precipitation trends from one community to the next as thunderstorm season arrives in the eastern half of Canada.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern<\/p>\n

Most of Ontario and Quebec were in good shape heading into June despite below-normal precipitation throughout the region. The area of greatest concern remained northeastern Quebec and western Labrador, where moderate to severe drought conditions persisted.<\/p>\n

The Maritimes were a bright spot in the update, with persistent rains bringing a significant reduction in abnormally dry and moderate drought throughout New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. A few of these areas saw more than 200 per cent of their normal precipitation in May.<\/p>\n

WATCH: How El Ni\u00f1o could shape summer 2026 across Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much of the B.C. Interior found itself mired in a moderate or severe drought to start June, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,26815],"class_list":["post-87562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}