Doug Lundquist, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, has worked in B.C. and Yukon for over three decades, and says he's "never quite seen a storm like this."
The average number of fires for this time of year is 79, and this year there are 21. A representative with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources says it's likely because of more rain and less lightning.
Highway 22 in southern Alberta was blanketed in what looked like snow but was probably hail, making roads slick and slow.
A massive snow dump reached the hamlet of Clyde River, Nunavut, while its bulldozer and one loader were out of service. Residents worked to clear snow so that trucked water and sewage services could reach homes.
The city has seen 114 millimetres of precipitation so far this June, more than the average for the entire summer.
March brought a series of storms across the Seward Peninsula, and in one Bering Strait community that meant a series of power outages. The storms are stronger than residents recall in the past.
One of B.C.'s most abundant plants is in trouble: patches of hardy salal plants are turning up brown, crispy and dying.
One of the main winter highways in the Northwest Territories turned into a swamp this week following unseasonably high temperatures.
Prince Rupert residents only had one dry day during the entire month of August and got a third of their annual rainfall in three summer months.
The North Klondike Highway remains closed from Stewart Crossing to Pelly Crossing after fire breached the highway, the Yukon government has confirmed.
Northern Harvest Sea Farms is busy cleaning pens of dead salmon, and the province's head aquaculture vet says higher-than-average water temperatures are to blame.
A storm caused flooding and road closures in New Hampshire's White Mountains and North Country, with ongoing concerns about rising river levels and dam operations.
Lake Erie, the fourth-largest of the five Great Lakes, has broken the water level record set in 1986.
Now three years in a row the river is jammed, upriver from Dawson, and that leaves a big open lead of water right in front of town.
Despite daytime closures, evening events expected to happen on schedule this week.
Nunavut is bracing for another day where wind gusts could reach 140 km/h after severe weather sent debris flying through the streets of the territory's capital overnight.
A late start means the community of just over 130 must rely more heavily on air transport, which adds to the cost of goods brought in town.
Sockeye salmon are migrating up B.C.'s Fraser River right now, but the water is so warm the fish may die before they have the chance to spawn.
This year's seasonal ice cover is the lowest in its 51-year recorded history say forecasters with the Canadian Ice Service.
The British Columbia government has declared a state of emergency to support the provincewide response to the ongoing wildfire situation.
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