Those are rookie numbers. Just wait until July.
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More Than 90 Wildfires Are Out of Control in Canada
Dozens of huge wildfires have suddenly started across Canada, already forcing 21,000 evacuations and spitting out poisonous smoke into the air.
The provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have both declared a state of emergency, as several separate blazes raged out of control.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney is sending in the military to help move residents and fight fires in Manitoba, where 17,000 people have been forced to evacuate.
In Saskatchewan, where 4,000 people have ran away from their homes, the conditions are "as extreme" as "anything that we have faced for quite some period of time, if not ever", premier Scott Moe said.
Over the last few years, Canadian fires have waved in the dirty smoke across North America, way spreading scary, orange-colored skies and very dirty air across New York in 2023.
Daniel Swain, climate scientist and weather expert at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), said smoke from Canada was already visible in the western US state of Colorado today, carried by favourable winds.
The countries share firefighting resources and will likely have to fight strong wildfire seasons at the same time later this year, creating competition for supplies.
This challenge will be "compounded by recent extreme cuts to emergency response, wildland firefighting, and weather prediction" by the Trump administration, added Dr Swain.
Fire-friendly weather that created exceptional blazes in eastern Canada in 2023 was made at least seven times more likely by climate change, scientists at World Weather Attribution found.
The frightening thing is that summer hasn't officially started yet in the Northern Hemisphere.
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