Wind warning: Special weather statement in effect for Lower Mainland<\/p>\n
Published 1:23 pm Monday, April 6, 2026<\/p>\n
Better batten down the hatches \u2026 or, at least, ensure loose patio furniture covers are not potential hazards.<\/p>\n
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Metro Vancouver Monday night into Tuesday morning (April 6-7), including Surrey, White Rock, Delta, and Langley as well as the rest of the Lower Mainland.<\/p>\n
Strong and gusty westerly winds up to 70 km\/h are expected starting tonight, due to a \u201cvigorous cold front\u201d that will cross B.C.\u2019s South Coast, the federal agency said Monday (April 6).<\/p>\n
The windy weather may toss loose objects around and break tree branches, and local utility outages are possible, Environment Canada cautioned in the statement.<\/p>\n
In November of 2024, damage from a patio furniture cover resulted in a power outage for nearly 14,000 customers in White Rock and South Surrey, according to BC Hydro.<\/p>\n
The winds are forecast to ease Tuesday morning (April 7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wind warning: Special weather statement in effect for Lower Mainland Published 1:23 pm Monday, April 6, 2026 Better…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-586726","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\/586726","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=586726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}