CALGARY- Environment Canada has named the catastrophic flood that swamped southern Alberta in June the top weather event of 2013.
The criteria for Canada’s top weather stories include the extent of the area affected and the economic impact.
The June flood cut off dozens of communities, forced the evacuation of about 100,000 people and left roughly 10,000 people homeless.
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The province has put the cost of the flood at $6 billion.
Environment Canada’s other top weather stories of the year include:
- A deluge of rain that hit Toronto during the evening rush hour on July 8, delivering more rain in two hours than Toronto usually sees during an entire July.
- Wicked winter weather in the East in February, with as much as 60 cm of snow falling along the Atlantic coast.
- Spring flooding in Ontario’s Cottage Country, with some of the highest and fastest rising water levels in recent memory.
- The long winter in the Prairies, where the cold, snow and ice went on for seven months from October 2012 to April 2013.
- Sunny and rainless B.C. when not a single drop of rain fell in either Vancouver or Victoria as the Pacific coast was bathed in record breaking continuous sunshine in July.
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