LETTER: Ending Canada\u2019s Hello Weather phone service was a \u2018dumb decision\u2019<\/p>\n
Published 8:00 am Sunday, April 5, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
Re: Removal of Hello Weather telephone service<\/p>\n
Removal of easy access Hello Weather telephone service is a dumb, dumb, dumb decision. Hello Weather is an early warning weather system that connected Canadians all across Canada and did not exclude remote areas. The telephone service provided trustworthy information; refreshed mind awareness, providing the necessary human voice and human contact.<\/p>\n
Hello Weather confirmed the day of year and what to expect and prepare for about weather hourly to everyone\u2019s area. With this system all Canadians were weather informed.<\/p>\n
Hello Weather\u2019s information provided: storm warnings, hourly temperature, barometric pressure, wind\u2019s velocity and direction. Also, average day temperatures, wind\u2019s velocity and direction, average night temperatures and, of course, other weather warnings.<\/p>\n
Do Canadians have a better system of easy access and human contact to be informed of our weather? Hello Weather encouraged prevention, built trust and united Canadians.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
Shirley Jones, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Ending Canada\u2019s Hello Weather phone service was a \u2018dumb decision\u2019 Published 8:00 am Sunday, April 5, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-584152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584152","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=584152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}