{"id":211743,"date":"2025-10-14T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/211743\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:00:09","slug":"canada-heat-waves-in-2025-tied-to-human-driven-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/211743\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada heat waves in 2025 tied to human-driven climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Events linked to climate change<\/p>\n<p>As a result of ECCC&#8217;s investigation, human influence on the climate made the following heat waves at least two to 10 times more likely to occur:<\/p>\n<p>Alberta (Aug. 25-31)<\/p>\n<p>*denotes the average over the region<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 28.8 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 9.3 C<\/p>\n<p>Fort Smith, N.W.T. (Aug. 24-31)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 25.5 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 11.6 C<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/3LCdQJ9O2FOYAKIXYgDydF\/be628e082f6ac39b27c570ec9633f7ee\/Summer_heat_yokeetod_gettyimages-804324404-170667a.jpg\" alt=\"Summer heat\/yokeetod\/Getty Images-804324404-170667a\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Summer_heat_yokeetod_gettyimages-804324404-170667a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n(Getty Images-804324404-170667a)<\/p>\n<p>Southern British Columbia (Aug. 23 to Sept. 7)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 27.1 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 10.3 C<\/p>\n<p>Northern British Columbia (Aug. 23 to Sept. 9)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 23.5 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 9.6 C<\/p>\n<p>Southern Quebec (Aug. 7-13)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily high temperature during the heat wave: 29.3 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 9.1 C<\/p>\n<p>Northern Quebec (Aug. 6-9)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 23.8 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 7.0 C<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/Qh5V1OZwhySNwccqTh5ku\/0b4daf1c3d3d7828db7683cb5dd2a023\/gettyimages-1147294367-170667a.jpeg\" alt=\"Getty Images: Credit: LFO62 Creative #: 1147294367. Link: https:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/photo\/womans-hand-and-the-sun-royalty-free-image\/1147294367?adppopup=true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gettyimages-1147294367-170667a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n(Getty Images: Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/photo\/womans-hand-and-the-sun-royalty-free-image\/1147294367?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LFO62 Creative #: 1147294367<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Fort Smith, N.W.T. (July 30 to Aug. 1)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 25.2 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 6.0 C<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic Canada (July 10-15)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 25.6 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 7.1 C<\/p>\n<p>Northern Quebec (July 10-13)<\/p>\n<p>Peak, daily-high temperature during the heat wave: 24.2 C*<\/p>\n<p>Degrees above normal, daily-high temperature: 7.5 C<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/2JLY1CY240QYmpEO3NjKvM\/026c32d857dccbdafe6ae0b58fc3e43b\/unnamed__9_.png\" alt=\"Heat Wave, Ontario, Atlantic Canada, Summer, August, Heat, Jet Stream, August 06, 2025. (The Weather Network\/Rachel Modestino)\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/unnamed__9_.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nA jet stream forecast for Eastern Canada during the weekend of Aug. 9-10, 2025. (The Weather Network)<\/p>\n<p>As well, in August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/forecasts\/canada-weather-forecast-outlook-august-2025\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a heat wave in Atlantic Canada<\/a> was &#8220;far more likely&#8221; to happen due to climate change, with ECCC saying that particular event was &#8220;at least 10 times&#8221; more likely to occur as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Events linked to climate change As a result of ECCC&#8217;s investigation, human influence on the climate made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,2848,6093,295,3609,16581,66],"class_list":["post-211743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-heat","tag-heat-wave","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}