2015: a year of extremes – Vancouver Sun newspaper editorial summarizes the year’s turbulent weather in a single paragraph
“For British Columbia, this was the year of the great drought, dwindling snow packs, melting glaciers, beleaguered salmon runs and a costly forest fire season, followed by windstorms and heavy rains. Launched from a powerful El Nino, storms caused the single largest electrical outage in the province’s history,” wrote the Vancouver Sun editorial board (chaired by Harold Munro) in a year-ending editorial.