Climate change: Droughts, heavy rain turn Canada’s pumpkin harvest spooky

Droughts, heavy rain create challenge for Canada’s pumpkin season - Castor Advance

Extreme weather caused by climate change — droughts followed by heavy rains — wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest across Canada this year.

FREDERICTON — Les conditions météorologiques extrêmes causées par les changements climatiques, soit des sécheresses suivies de fortes pluies, ont ravagé les récoltes de citrouilles partout au Canada cette année. Le producteur de citrouilles de la Nouvelle-Écosse, Danny Dill, a affirmé que la saison de plantation du printemps a été extrêmement sèche. Une période de temps chaud, suivie de près de deux semaines d’incendies de forêt historiques, à l…

Droughts, heavy rain create challenge for Canada’s pumpkin season - Lacombe Express

Extreme weather caused by climate change — droughts followed by heavy rains — wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest across Canada this year.

Droughts, heavy rain create challenge for Canada’s pumpkin season - Red Deer Advocate

Extreme weather caused by climate change — droughts followed by heavy rains — wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest across Canada this year. Nova Scotia pumpkin farmer Danny Dill said the spring planting season was extremely dry. A spell of hot weather and then nearly two weeks of historic wildfires in late May and early June left behind more than 235 square kilometres of scorched ground. “It was just like a dust bowl there,” said Dill, owner o…

Spooky harvest: Droughts, heavy rain create challenge for Canada's pumpkin season

FREDERICTON -- Extreme weather caused by climate change -- droughts followed by heavy rains -- wreaked havoc with the pumpkin harvest across Canada this year.

Pumpkin Crops Fall Victim to Extreme Weather - Videos from The Weather Channel

Many pumpkin farmers suffered a 20% or more loss in crop this year due to a combination of this summer’s extreme heat and water woes. Climate change is also to blame. - Videos from The Weather Channel