{"id":937090,"date":"2026-10-18T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937090\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:00:18","slug":"weather-alert-issued-as-gusts-up-to-100-km-h-expected-in-parts-of-central-southern-alberta-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937090\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather alert issued as gusts up to 100 km\/h expected in parts of central, southern Alberta Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Environment Canada issued a wind warning Saturday for large parts of central and southern Alberta.<\/p>\n

Gusts up to 90 km\/h are expected in central and east-central Alberta, and 100 km\/h gusts are forecasted in the far south of the province, the agency says.<\/p>\n

Local utility outages are also possible in southern Alberta, it adds.<\/p>\n

Driving conditions in all areas affected by the wind alert<\/a> will likely be difficult, and high-sided vehicles will be pushed around by the wind, Environment Canada says.<\/p>\n

The weather agency advises residents to secure loose objects, and warns about the possibility of damage to roofs, fences, tree branches or “soft shelters.”<\/p>\n

In Edmonton, strong winds have already brought down trees and caused traffic signal outages across the city, a City of Edmonton spokesperson told CBC News in an email Saturday. <\/p>\n

The spokesperson advised drivers to treat intersections with dark traffic signals as four-way stops and report any fallen branches or traffic signal issues to 311.<\/p>\n

The high winds also delayed a pro-independence rally <\/a>outside Alberta’s legislature. According to organizer Keith Wilson, co-chair of Let Alberta Decide, the weather conditions pushed the scheduled start time from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada says the winds are expected to calm down Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-937090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937090","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=937090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}