Alberta, Saskatchewan Are ‘Just Waiting To Burn’ Says Wildfire Researcher – Huffington Post

REGINA — Large swaths of red — meaning extreme risk — cover Alberta and Saskatchewan on the latest fire danger map from Natural Resources Canada.

Many other areas are considered high or very high risk in the two Prairie provinces, where there’s been below average snowfall and above normal temperatures in much of Western Canada.

‘El Nino’ to blame

Kerry Anderson, a fire research scientist with Natural Resources Canada, says that’s due to a weather pattern known as El Nino.

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