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Canada is maybe one of the last places that come to mind when you think about heat waves and drought. Think again.

With 2015 on pace to break last year’s record for the planet’s hottest year, the snowy Great White North has learned it’s not immune to global warming.

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Western Canada, home to glaciers and source of some of the world’s longest rivers, has been hit by wildfires and dry spells from British Columbia’s Pacific Coast to the prairies in Saskatchewan. The thaw in the Rocky Mountains came too early, before enough snow accumulated to feed streams in the summer. Vancouver, known for its rainy weather, has had to restrict water use much like drought-struck California.

“This is what Canada looks like without the cold,” John Pomeroy, a University of Saskatchewan researcher, said in an interview from Canmore, Alberta, where he studies water basins in the Rockies. “We’ve really built our western Canadian society around the water from the snowpack.”