A special weather statement issued for much of British Columbia’s southern coast and parts of Vancouver Island is warning of “strong and gusty” winds starting on Monday.
The notice from Environment Canada says wind gusts up to 70 km/h are expected to start late Monday afternoon and continue into Tuesday morning.
Get daily National news
It says a “vigorous” cold front will cross the South Coast on Monday, developing strong westerly winds in its wake.
The statement covers communities including Metro Vancouver, Greater Victoria and east Vancouver Island as well as the Southern Gulf Island.
- Large swath of southern Ontario set for heavy rain to start Easter weekend
- Another spring snowstorm snarls Calgary roads, causes dozens of crashes
- Snow in the forecast for Calgary, Edmonton areas ahead of the long weekend
- ‘Stay connected’: Atlantic Canada’s messy winter has been hard on students, seniors
Environment Canada says strong wind gusts may toss loose objects and break tree branches.
The agency says both local utility outages and disruptions to services and travel are possible.
If I had a dollar for every high wind warning, that did not happen, I would be rich!
The past years everyone fusses and frets over every little breeze.
I was a child when Hurricane Freda came through, October, 1969.
Does all of the new generation think they are immune to nasty weather…cause guess what you are not.
As my 99 year old Grandma used to say; “alive long enough and you will see every type of weather; droughts, floods, hurricanes, ect ect