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 Thu Nov 5, 4:21 PM until Fri Nov 6, 8:21 AM
Full alert text
Damaging winds are expected.
Strong southeasterly winds.
When: overnight tonight into Friday afternoon.
Where: East Vancouver Island - Nanoose Bay to Campbell River, Sunshine Coast - Sechelt to Powell River.
Remarks: A low pressure system will push onto the B.C. coast Friday. Ahead of the low, southeasterly winds 70 gusting to 90 km/h will develop through the Strait of Georgia overnight tonight. The strong winds are expected to ease Friday afternoon.
Another round of potentially warning criteria 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.
Strong southeasterly winds.
When: overnight tonight into Friday afternoon.
Where: East Vancouver Island - Nanoose Bay to Campbell River, Sunshine Coast - Sechelt to Powell River.
Remarks: A low pressure system will push onto the B.C. coast Friday. Ahead of the low, southeasterly winds 70 gusting to 90 km/h will develop through the Strait of Georgia overnight tonight. The strong winds are expected to ease Friday afternoon.
Another round of potentially warning criteria 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.
Current weather
2:00 AM6°C
Light drizzle
High 5° · Low 4° · 30%
- Wind
- S 9 km/h
- Wind gusts
- 14 km/h
- Humidity
- 100%
- Air quality (AQHI)
- 1.1 · Low risk
- UV index
- 0 · Low
More details
- Dew point
- 6°C
- Pressure
- 101.8 kPa ↘ falling
- Visibility
- 2 km
- Sunrise
- 8:08 AM
- Sunset
- 5:40 PM
- Daylight
- 9 h 32 min
Observed at Pemberton Airport, 2:00 AM MST · Environment and Climate Change Canada