These wildfires never went out — they just moved underground | Canada’s record wildfire season keeps burning through the winter
“Climate warming and drying is leading to these very large fire years, which then facilitate this overwintering fire activity,” Jennifer Baltzer, a biology professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, told the Toronto Star.
I've seen similar underground winter fires in Siberia, smoke from peat emerging through snowy forests - and that was 1997-98 (also an El Niño winter). Adding a lot of extra carbon, bad positive feedback ...
This is wild. Sounds like canada is going to fighting fires all summer.
Saw this in Alaska on assignment in 2015