Land temperature and hydrological conditions over B.C. in 2023
Date
2024
Authors
Curry, Charles L.
Lang, Kristyn
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Publisher
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Abstract
In 2023, B.C. experienced record warm annual, summer and fall temperatures and well below-normal annual precipitation. Snowpack was generally below-normal through the winter, rapidly decreasing to well below-normal by June 1st due to early snowmelt across the province. In late summer and fall, severe drought conditions were experienced nearly everywhere in B.C., coinciding with record warm temperatures and below-normal precipitation. The trend in annual mean temperature in B.C. is positive and can be distinguished from natural variability over the analyzed period, 1950-2023. Annual precipitation, however, exhibits no significant trend over that period.
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Keywords
UN SDG 13: Climate Action, #summary report, #PCIC publication, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
Citation
Curry, C. L., & Lang, K. T. (2025). Land temperature and hydrological conditions over B.C. in 2024. In J. L. Boldt, E. Joyce, S. Tucker, S. Gauthier and H. Dosser (Eds.), State of the physical, biological and selected fishery resources of Pacific Canadian marine ecosystems in 2024 (pp. 28-32), Fisheries and Oceans Canada.