{"id":315885,"date":"2025-11-30T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315885\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:25:18","slug":"environment-canada-weather-advisories-are-now-colour-coded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/315885\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Canada weather advisories are now colour-coded"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"colour<\/a>Colour-coded weather alerts new in 2025. [Environment Canada]
\n \"CANADIAN<\/a> <\/p>\n

Saturday November 29, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC<\/p>\n

by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends<\/p>\n

Yellow, orange and red!<\/p>\n

Environment Canada has shifted to a new system of colour-coded weather alerts.<\/p>\n

The weather alert colours move from yellow, to orange, to red, as the potential risk increases (high-five to Trekkies everywhere!).<\/p>\n

\"monk<\/a><\/p>\n

Weather risk indicator:<\/p>\n

There are three types of alert colours and symbols. The colours indicate what risk the weather is to people and communities. <\/p>\n

The colour-coded descriptions are more about impacts than the meteorology \u2014 as a way to help people and communities prepare for disruptive or extreme weather events.<\/p>\n

Every type of\u00a0weather alert<\/a> \u2014Warnings, Advisories, and Watches \u2014now has a colour when it is issued. <\/p>\n

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Three levels:<\/p>\n

Yellow<\/p>\n

\"Yellow<\/p>\n

Hazardous weather may cause damage, disruption, or health impacts<\/p>\n

Impacts are moderate, localized and\/or short-term<\/p>\n

Yellow alerts are the most common<\/p>\n

\"weather<\/a>Yellow Warning \u2013 Wind<\/p>\n

YELLOW WIND WARNING: Representation of the potential impacts of a Yellow Warning \u2013 Wind. A house with a tall tree beside it, a red car and hydro poles in front. No lights are on in the house, branches are scattered in front, a potted plant has blown over, and there is visible damage to the roof.<\/p>\n

Orange<\/p>\n

\"Orange<\/p>\n

Severe weather is likely\u00a0to cause significant damage, disruption, or health impacts<\/p>\n

Impacts are major, widespread and\/or may last a few days<\/p>\n

Orange alerts are uncommon<\/p>\n

\"weather<\/a>Orange Warning \u2013 Wind<\/p>\n

ORANGE WIND WARNING: Representation of the potential impacts of an Orange Warning \u2013 Wind. A house with a tall tree beside it, a red car and hydro poles in front. No lights are on in the house, a window is broken, and smaller branches are scattered around. Both potted plants have blown over, the hydro cable has broken, and larger branches have fallen onto the roof and car causing significant damage.<\/p>\n

\"power<\/a><\/p>\n

Red<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/p>\n

Very dangerous and possibly life-threatening weather will cause extreme damage and disruption<\/p>\n

Impacts are extensive, widespread, and prolonged<\/p>\n

Red alerts are rare<\/p>\n

\"weather<\/a>Red Warning \u2013 Wind<\/p>\n

RED WIND WARNING: Representation of the potential impacts of a Red Warning \u2013 Wind. A house with a tall tree beside it, a red car and hydro poles in front. No lights are on in the house and multiple windows are broken, with damage to the house\u2019s siding. Smaller branches and significant debris are scattered around. A hydro pole and power lines have blown over. The tree has fallen onto the roof of the house causing significant damage. Another large branch has fallen on the car.<\/p>\n

\"jdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Marine warnings:<\/p>\n

Marine weather warnings are part of a separate alerting program and do not use colour-coded weather alerts. The\u00a0Canadian Marine Warning Program<\/a>\u00a0will continue to use a single-tier warning system.<\/p>\n

\"ist<\/a>Local, provincial and federal news and analysis posted daily at IslandSocialTrends.ca. <\/p>\n

===== RELATED:<\/p>\n

NEWS SECTIONS: WEATHER IMPACTS<\/a> | EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS<\/a> | POWER OUTAGES<\/a><\/p>\n

GOVERNMENT LINK: COLOUR-CODED WEATHER ALERTS<\/a> (Government of Canada)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colour-coded weather alerts new in 2025. [Environment Canada] Saturday November 29, 2025 | VICTORIA, BC by Mary P…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,14881,6094,140636,44,140637,140638,71015,140639,97768],"class_list":["post-315885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment-canada","tag-extreme-weather","tag-main-environment-sustainability","tag-news","tag-trees-natural-land","tag-weather-alert","tag-wind-warning","tag-windstorm","tag-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}