River and reservoir levels are dropping rapidly across the province and much earlier than normal due to higher than normal temperatures.

“We’ve never seen this before,” said Dave Campbell, the head of the forecast centre, in an interview with CHEK News Monday.

“We are really going to need to see wet weather and persistent wet weather for the next several weeks if we were to avoid significant drought for places like Vancouver Island for later this summer.”

Environment Canada tells CHEK News that wet and persistent weather is not coming in the near future.

Officials are asking people to conserve water now as we head into what could be a history-making drought season.

Not looking forward to this, but I guess it’s the new normal for BC’s climate going forwards… Likely to also increase the incidence of forest fires, I’d imagine.