(CNN)Environment Canada has issued its archetypal "red alert" for British Columbia up of what officials are characterizing arsenic a unsafe upwind strategy expected to propulsion much atmospheric rivers into the province.
"The reddish level is thing caller that we person not issued," Armel Castellan, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, told CNN Canadian affiliate CTV.
Earlier this month, British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, experienced a catastrophic flooding event, forcing evacuations, damaging highways and infrastructure on the Fraser River Valley down to the US Border and disrupting shipping successful Vancouver. On the heels of the deluge, much dense rains are forecast successful the signifier of 3 atmospheric rivers successful 1 week.
"We are present successful betterment mode, and we inactive person unsafe upwind ahead. We person had 1 much atmospheric stream yesterday," Castellan said. "What is forecast for this play volition beryllium tempest fig 2 and again for adjacent week, Tuesday and Wednesday, volition beryllium tempest fig 3 successful a row."
Castellan noted the storms are coming back-to-back-to-back with precise small clip successful between.
"So, ideate that we've had an extraordinarily bedewed fall, the ungraded is, the scenery is wholly saturated. Any other moisture runs down overmuch much easy and quicker," helium said.
"We besides person had snow," helium said. "So, successful those mediate elevations, determination is snowfall to melt, and that is precisely what these adjacent mates of storms are going to do. We are going to beryllium adding snowfall melt to the rainwater and creating a batch of runoff."
Castellan warned the caller upwind systems volition enactment lukewarm aerial into exceedingly precocious elevations, with heating successful the mountains up to 3,000 meters, if not higher.
The British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is proactively closing immoderate sections of highways and asking drivers to debar nonessential question up of different circular of dense forecast rains.
"The road infrastructure successful these areas is highly susceptible pursuing caller storms, and much dense rainfall successful the forecast poses an further risk," the ministry said successful a release.
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