wind
Yellow alert- Area
- East Vancouver Island - Nanoose Bay to Fanny Bay; East Vancouver Island - Courtenay to Campbell River; Sunshine Coast - Gibsons to Earls Cove; Sunshine Coast - Saltery Bay to Powell River
- In effect
- from Fri Nov 6, 1:09 PM until Fri Nov 6, 10:07 PM
Full alert text
Damaging winds are expected.
When: Now until late this afternoon.
Where: East Vancouver Island - Nanoose Bay to Campbell River, Sunshine Coast - Sechelt to Powell River.
Remarks: A low pressure system is pushing onto the B.C. coast. Strong southeasterly winds 70 gusting to 90 km/h have developed through the Strait of Georgia. The strong winds are expected to ease later this afternoon.
Another round of potentially impactful winds are expected to develop later Saturday afternoon.
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Local utility outages are possible.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or post reports on social media using #BCStorm.
When: Now until late this afternoon.
Where: East Vancouver Island - Nanoose Bay to Campbell River, Sunshine Coast - Sechelt to Powell River.
Remarks: A low pressure system is pushing onto the B.C. coast. Strong southeasterly winds 70 gusting to 90 km/h have developed through the Strait of Georgia. The strong winds are expected to ease later this afternoon.
Another round of potentially impactful winds are expected to develop later Saturday afternoon.
###
Local utility outages are possible.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or post reports on social media using #BCStorm.
Current weather
6:00 PM9°C
Feels like -1°
Mostly Cloudy
High 11° · Low 6° · 40%
- Wind
- N 4 km/h
- Wind gusts
- 44 km/h
- Humidity
- 100%
- Air quality (AQHI)
- 2.3 · Low risk
- UV index
- 0 · Low
More details
- Dew point
- 9°C
- Pressure
- 101.1 kPa ↗ rising
- Visibility
- 10 km
- Sunrise
- 8:19 AM
- Sunset
- 5:49 PM
- Daylight
- 9 h 30 min
Observed at Campbell River Airport, 6:00 PM MST · Environment and Climate Change Canada