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Providing a weather forecast for Ontario and Quebec on Wednesday as wildfires burn, Environment Canada said that there was a “chance of showers” for southern and eastern Quebec, as well as northern and Southern Ontario in the coming days, but that the rain amounts are “not expected to be significant over the active fire areas.”

Representatives also warned that a possibility of lightning could start new fires if they reached dry ground in the areas. They added that air quality remained poor for First Nations communities and that air quality is going to “remain a concern” through the summer as long as forest fire activity continues.

Asked what concerned him the most, meteorologist Steven Flisfeder responded that he was most worried about vulnerable communities. “Individuals with chronic illness as well as the elderly children, pregnant women, for example… It's going to be something that they have to monitor day to day, week to week throughout the summer," he said.

“Given the nature of climate change and the increasing tendency of warmer than normal temperatures continuing over the coming decades and the drying nature of climate change, it's something that is going to be more probable,” Flisfeder also warned about longer trends. “The likelihood of forest fires becoming a bigger concern in coming decades is something that is consistent with climate change.”

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