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March 24, 2010

Conclusion of 2010 Winter Games site

Weatheroffice.gc.ca carried extra forecasts, local conditions and experimental products in support of the 2010 Winter Games. With the end of the 2010 Winter Games this specialized section of the Weatheroffice website has been closed. All comments on the 2010 services are most welcome. Please use the contact us button on the top banner.

February 11, 2010

Warning RSS Weather Feed

Accurate and timely weather warning information is now available as a RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. Receive updates for the latest weather watches or warnings for your community or region.

We now offer two levels of weather Warning RSS feeds:

  • Covering a smaller geographic area is the City page Warning RSS feed, which will alert of watches/warnings in the community of a city/town. Link is located next to the Forecast "RSS" link at the bottom of the city pages in the section "Current Conditions and Forecasts".
  • For a larger geographic area is the Report page warning RSS feed, which will alert of watches/warning in a given region. Link is located at the bottom of the pages of the content section "Public Warnings".

When you subscribe to Environment Canada's RSS Warning Feed - the RSS feed contains the Public Weather Watches and Warnings which offer notification of Warning / Watch events from time of issuance to the time it is ended.

September 29, 2009

New 2010 Winter Games site

The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are less than six months away!

  • Olympic Venue weather conditions and forecasts
  • Historical climate information for the 2010 Winter Games period
  • Current road conditions
  • Canada2010.gc.ca - the official Government of Canada 2010 Winter Games Website

As the exclusive provider of weather services, Environment Canada's detailed weather forecasts, warnings and information will guide crucial operational decisions during the 2010 Winter Games. This data will also help prepare athletes for competition, promote fairness, and keep Olympic spectators, tourists and local residents safe.

Stay tuned! As the 2010 Winter Games approach, new resources will be added to Weatheroffice's 2010 Winter Games page.

March 04, 2009

Seven Day Forecasts

Users of the "Current Conditions and Forecasts" section will quickly notice the introduction of several improvements. The primary change is the inclusion of a sixth and seventh day in the forecast period. Other minor adjustments to the web page have been made in response to the ongoing feedback from our users. To summarize, the changes include:

  • Introduction of a sixth and seven day in the forecast.
  • Full text is always available beneath the icons to reduce button clicks.
  • Highlighted temperature values in the icon summary when no high or low temperature is stated where temperatures rise or fall abnormally.
  • In morning forecast updates, the low temperature value for tonight is moved to the next day icon box since the occurrence of the lowest night temperature typically occurs near day break.
  • In afternoon forecast updates, this low temperature adjustment is also applied to the third day of the forecast period.

August 27, 2008

New Lightning Maps

Improvements to the lightning detection pages of our site have just been implemented. These new pages enable users to select "regional" geographic areas of interest which are updated hourly. In addition, the areas of lightning are smaller covering 40 square kilometres instead of the previous 80.

Visit our lightning detection section to see the recent improvements! Comments regarding these changes can be made by visiting Contact Us.

June 26, 2008

Redesigned Marine Pages

Users of the "Marine Info" forecast section will quickly notice the introduction of new improvements. Environment Canada's marine forecast products can now be accessed by selecting areas of interest from regional maps. These redesigned pages provide mariners, boaters and sailors with:

  • marine warnings and watches highlighted on national and regional maps.
  • maps that enable users to select an area of interest which brings them to a suite of marine weather and ice products accessible from one page.
  • "tabbed browsing" to select a variety of info products for the marine area of interest.
  • access to weather reports from a network of buoys and coastal weather stations located on interactive maps.
  • links to related content through the Marine Services On-Line portal and other web pages.

January 23, 2008

New Left Menu and Redesigned City Pages

Improvements to the "weatheroffice" web site's left menu and forecast pages are here! In order to serve these ever popular web pages more effectively, a new design has been introduced to make them easier to scan and navigate. These comprehensive changes based on usability testing have brought many improvements. They include:

Navigation

  • "New" left menu using easy to understand terminology
  • Simpler terms and shorter list of menu choices
  • Expandable menus for related content
  • Improved navigation by using "Forecast Quick Link" found at the top of the Canada and forecast pages

Presentation

  • Forecast icons - organized in one row for the 5 day period
  • Details of forecast are selectable for each forecast period
  • Simpler style for easier scanning adopted in the page layout

Content

  • Content grouped as Current Conditions, Forecast and Historical Data
  • Grouping of related content with the use of "more info" menus for each group
  • New icons developed through the input of client groups

December 12, 2007

RSS Weather Feed

Accurate and timely weather information is now available as a RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. Receive updates to the weather conditions and forecast for your city when you subscribe to Environment Canada's RSS Weather Feed! One RSS feed contains the following information:

  • Weather Watches and Warnings:
    Updates of Warning/Watch events from issue time to the time it is ended.

  • Current Conditions:
    Hourly weather conditions, temperature, pressure, visibility, humidity, dewpoint, wind, air quality health index and windchill/humidex. (Some locations may not have all of the weather elements listed in current conditions.)

  • Forecasts:
    Forecast weather conditions including high and low temperatures for 5 days.

To facilitate access to this service, our "5 Day Weather" page has a RSS link near the bottom of the page. More detailed information can be found by visiting our Weather, Your Way page.

November 01, 2007

Access to Wireless Service

Wireless access to a suite of weather information is now available on the Government of Canada Wireless Portal for mobile devices which includes:

  • Warnings
  • Current Conditions
  • Forecasts
  • Yesterday's Weather

To facilitate access to this service, our "5 Day Weather" page has a link near the page bottom. This link will enable users to obtain more information about the Wireless Portal. For easy access, point your mobile web-enabled device to the following address: http://wap.gc.ca.

March 14, 2007

New Graphics on Our Web Site

Users to our web site will notice significant graphic changes as our web site adopts new standards. This change represents the first phase of web improvements as we align the site with the new norms established for Government of Canada web sites. Further changes can be expected over the next several months as we address outstanding requirements in the new web standard.

As well, our site will adopt a new address "www.weatheroffice.gc.ca" with the introduction of the above changes. For most users, this will largely be transparent as we automatically redirect users to the changed page addresses.

October 11, 2006

Improved User Options in Radar Imagery Section

Changes to the radar section on this site expand user options to a significant degree! The improvements include: the provision of extra geographical references, easier navigation from one local radar site to another, and a "how to use" section.

The new geographic reference overlays include additional towns or cities, major road network and rivers which can be user selected or removed. In addition, a navigation footer enables users to easily navigate to nearby radar sites.

Finally, a user guide is also available providing information on how to better use the radar products.

Visit our radar imagery section to see the recent improvements! Comments regarding these changes can be made by visiting Contact Us.

July 20, 2006

World Weather Content Changes

International forecasts are now available from official sources. Environment Canada will no longer produce or display site-specific forecasts for non-Canadian locations. We will continue to link visitors to other web sites for current and forecast conditions outside Canada.

For the United States, visitors will be redirected to a web site for official information prepared by the U.S. National Weather Service at:http://www.nws.noaa.gov/.

For all other countries, visitors will be redirected to a web site by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) which offers official weather information from each participating country at:http://www.worldweather.org/.

Dec 13, 2005

Afternoon Forecast Updates Have an Additional Time Period

Our "afternoon" updates of public 5-day weather forecasts now include an additional time period for the second night (from 6 pm to 6 am). The format is similar to the first night and the length of time covered by the forecast remains unchanged in our web site (up to day 5).

Visually, the afternoon icon presentation of forecasts changes from 5 boxes of information to 6, thus eliminating the empty grey box in the afternoon and evening.

May 18, 2005

Standard Region Names

New standard forecast region names are being introduced to our web site. These are the names used to describe forecast areas in the "weather warning" section or "text forecast" section of our web site. This improvement is part of an effort by the Meteorological Service of Canada to synchronise the names in all our internal systems using region names for weather forecast areas.

Many of the region name changes are minor however the changes do include a small number of redefined region boundaries. This synchronised change of May 18 may create brief disruptions or delays in the delivery of weather forecast info to our web pages during the transition to the new names.

January 26, 2005

New 5 day weather pages

Changes to the 5 day weather pages are here! In order to serve these popular web pages more efficiently, the software processes to serve these pages have been modified. This review has brought many basic improvements which include:

Navigation

  • Left menu highlight to indicate your position in the menu
  • Improved printing - print function in browser menu prints in one page
  • URL addresses have changed to remove the dependency which prevented the use of a weather observation for two or more cities

Presentation

  • Newer graphic style on two rows
  • Order of max and min temperatures adjusted
  • Moved the "normals" from the text forecast to the left column
  • Use of falling or rising temperature text for Day 1 graphic icon.

Content

  • Now, 97% of the 5 day weather pages will have current conditions
  • Review of the page names and lat/long coordinates for sunrise/sunset times
  • Inclusion of the observation station name for .current conditions
  • Added .record values. data to the city page through a link
Date Modified: 2012-05-03

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