'Baked, dried out, scorched, flooded': Canada's top weather stories of 2021

Environment Canada has released its Top 10 weather stories for 2021 — a year that its senior climatologist Dave Phillips calls the “most destructive, the most expensive and the deadliest year for weather in Canadian history.”

Though this is the 26th year that Phillips has created the list, he said: “No year compared to this year.”

“The events are bigger and badder and more impactful now than they were just 20 years ago,” he said.

While scientists have been raising the alarm over climate change for decades, in the past, it has appeared gradual, subtle and distant, Phillips said. “I think this is the