Environment Canada: 2024 was Vancouver’s wettest year so far this century [Video]

Vancouver lived up to its soggy reputation in 2024, the city’s wettest year so far this century, but an Environment Canada meteorologist says that a “multi-year” drought persists in other parts of British Columbia.

Meteorologist Chris Doyle said data showed more than 1,367 millimetres of precipitation at Vancouver International Airport last year, the most since 1999 when 1,394 millimetres fell.

But Doyle said the drenching boosted by a series of atmospheric river events and other storms along the B.C. coast did not translate to drought relief elsewhere in the province.

“People living in Vancouver might think, ‘You know, it’s kind of a wet year,’ but it’s not a wet year everywhere,” he said.

“Basically, it’s a story of warmth for basically all of the south coast, essentially coastal British Columbia, and the southern Interior and the southeast … in terms of precipitation, it was a normal to somewhat drier year.”

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