Winter grassfires on the Canadian Prairies.
And in Eastern Canada, a brutal six-day ice storm that left millions freezing in the dark. Every four or five years, shifts in wind and ocean currents leave the huge pool stationary off the coasts of Ecuador and Peru. The heat and moisture it releases affect weather patterns in various parts of the world. For five days in early January, the stream's southern component veered south and picked up warm, moist air around the Gulf of Mexico, then turned north again to Eastern Canada. It was a bayou storm as one meteorologist put it, in an Eastern Canadian winter.