Environment Canada
Wind warnings in Canada
A wind warning is about winds strong enough to do damage. Environment Canada’s impact guide: at yellow, minor travel delays from debris and outages, short power outages, large branches broken and a risk of injury from flying debris; at orange, widespread outages, some roof damage, small and medium trees snapped; at red, damage to the structure of homes and buildings, and long, widespread outages. Some places have winds of their own name: Les Suêtes on Cape Breton, the Wreckhouse winds in Newfoundland.
Environment and Climate Change Canada issues three kinds of weather alert. A warning: act now, severe weather is happening or will happen, usually 6 to 24 hours ahead (a tornado can come with less than 30 minutes’ notice). An advisory: act now, for weather less severe but still significant — blowing snow, fog, freezing drizzle and frost. A watch: get ready, the conditions favour severe weather, and it may become a warning. Each alert now also has a colour, for the impact expected where you are.
Where it is in force now
No wind warning is in force at the moment. As read at 27 October at 08:00 UTC from the warnings Environment Canada publishes.
What the levels mean
- Yellow
- Weather that may do damage, cause disruption or affect health; moderate, local or short-lived impacts. The most common colour.
- Orange
- Weather likely to do significant damage, cause major disruption or affect health; widespread impacts, or impacts that may last a few days. Uncommon.
- Red
- Very dangerous weather, possibly life-threatening, that will do extreme damage and disruption over a wide area and for a long time. Rare.
The three colours as Environment Canada describes them, in our words.
Environment Canada asks you to read the whole text of every alert, whatever its colour: it says what to expect, where, and what to do.
The last 30 days
The areas warned each day, by level.
- 26 October 2026 — 6 areas6
- 25 October 2026 — 17 areas17
- 24 October 2026 — 14 areas14
- 23 October 2026 — 338 areas338
- 22 October 2026 — 2 areas2
- 20 October 2026 — 7 areas7
- 19 October 2026 — 2 areas2
- 18 October 2026 — 19 areas19
- 17 October 2026 — 275 areas275
- 16 October 2026 — 2 areas2
- 15 October 2026 — 9 areas9
- 14 October 2026 — 93 areas93
- 13 October 2026 — 1 area1
- 10 October 2026 — 1 area1
- 7 October 2026 — 1 area1
- 6 October 2026 — 15 areas15
Sources
- Environment Canada: weather alerts (warnings, advisories, watches)
- Environment Canada: colour-coded weather alerts
- Environment Canada: weather impact guides
- Environment Canada: the alerts in force, on its map
Licence of the warnings: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence 2.1.1