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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It's been 400 years since beavers were hunted out of London, but with waters on the rise due to climate change, it's their time to shine once more - beginn...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mar 25, 2022
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Strange rain has long fascinated humanity, and people have written a lot about it over the years. For example, in June 2009, residents of Japan's Ishikawa ...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mar 10, 2022
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tourists flocking to Florida in search of a reprieve from last weekend’s bombogenesis storm in the Northeast (and regular old winter in the Midwest) ...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Feb 04, 2022
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! After a year full of strange weather patterns with destructive wildfires blazing along the West Coast, tornadoes ripping through the East, and Texas actual...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Jan 07, 2022
NANAIMO - A woman was temporarily trapped, but wasn't hurt after a tree tumbled over, taking three poles with it on the way down.It happened Thursday, Jan 6 at about 10 a.m. on Vancouver Ave. at Cypre...
Jan 06, 2022
NANAIMO - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.Environment Canada Meteorologist Brian Proctor said a series of systems bringing sporadic snow and freezing rain has led to snow on the ground Chr...
Dec 24, 2021
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humanity has reached a crucial point in the battle for the future of the planet. If temperatures continue to rise, both floods and droughts will leave popu...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dec 09, 2021
MERRITT - The City of Merritt has issued evacuation orders for multiple properties, due to flooding from the Coldwater River. In a noticed posted to the municipality's website earlier this morning (No...
Nov 15, 2021
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It’s currently the middle of spring in Australia, and yet earlier this week the land of giant spiders, snakes, and crocodiles endured storms that pum...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Oct 22, 2021
NANAIMO - Paced by several suffocating heatwaves and limited rain, summer 2021 was one for the record books.Environment Canada's meteorological cycle considers June, July and August the summer season ...
Sep 09, 2021