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- When severe winter weather threatens, Environment and Climate Change Canada issues special alerts that notify Canadians in affected areas. These alerts allow them to protect themselves and their property from harm. The Weatheradio service and the Government of Canada’s weather website issue these weather alert bulletins.
www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/seasonal-weather-hazards/be-prepared-for-winter.html
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Sep 10, 2023 · When conditions advance past simply having the potential for severe weather, and severe weather is actually developing or occurring, forecasters issue a warning.
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- What is Alert Ready?
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Alert Ready is the public branding of the National Public Alerting System (NPAS) designed to deliver critical and potentially life-saving alerts to Canadians through television, radio and other media and on wireless devices.
The Alert Ready system was developed by federal, provincial and territorial emergency management officials, broadcasters, and wireless service providers to ensure that you receive alerts immediately and know when to take action to keep yourself and your family safe.
Government officials developed a specific list of the types of alerts for events that are considered a threat to life and should be "broadcast immediately." Environment and Climate Change Canada issues “broadcast immediate” alerts for:
•all tornado warnings;
•severe thunderstorm warnings that meet the following criteria:
•wind gusts of 130 km/h or greater;
Public authorities use Alert Ready to inform their audiences about alerts issued for hazardous and life threatening events. The system also helps to ensure that more Canadians know about severe weather alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada and can make choices about their safety.
Be on the lookout for severe weather in your area. Take shelter if threatening weather is approaching.
This system was developed in collaboration with many partners:
•Public Safety Canada, the lead Government of Canada organization for coordinating across all federal departments and agencies responsible for national security and the safety of Canadians;
•Federal, provincial and territorial emergency management officials who are responsible for public alerting;
•Environment and Climate Change Canada, the official source for weather alerts and warnings in Canada. Environment and Climate Change Canada is the organization that issues the largest number of alerts to the public and hence will be the most frequent supplier of alerts to the Alert Ready system;
•Pelmorex, owners of Weather Network/Météomédia, runs the core infrastructure through which all emergency alert messages are collected and passed through to broadcasters and wireless service providers;
•Television and radio broadcasters, who have implemented systems to air alert messages for life-threatening situations by interrupting scheduled programming.
Aug 23, 2023 · How do alerts work? The emergency alert system is multi-faceted and used by officials at the federal, provincial and territorial level, and by federal and provincial police forces.
Get important weather alerts, AQHI and temperature notifications for your location and saved locations in Canada. Radar animation on a zoomable map in high-resolution. Option to display app with dark background and light text. Weather facts and climate information related to the current weather.
Apr 18, 2019 · With the approach of summer, forecasters will be on the lookout for more outbreaks of severe weather, and when extreme weather looms in Canada, there is a progression of statements, watches and...
Mar 25, 2021 · The National Weather Service and other agencies send out wireless alerts when a tornado, flash flooding, evacuation order or other immediate emergency is happening. But how do you make sure your...
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) are emergency messages, usually less than 90 characters, that are sent directly to your phone by authorized government alerting authorities through your mobile carrier.
