Moderate Severe Storm ● Active

yellow warning - wind - in effect — Metro Vancouver - North Shore including West Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada

Event time: Last updated: 53 min ago Canada
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Damaging winds are expected.

Strong southeasterly winds gusting to 90 km/h tonight.

Where:
Metro Vancouver - City of Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster
Metro Vancouver - Southwest including Richmond and Delta
Metro Vancouver - Southeast including Surrey and Langley
Metro Vancouver - Northeast including Coquitlam and Maple Ridge
Metro Vancouver - Northshore
Fraser Valley - West including Abbotsford

When: This evening until early Sunday morning.

Remarks:
Another strong low pressure system is heading towards the South Coast. As the low moves inland, strong southeasterly winds 70 km/h gusting to 90 will develop early this evening, then ease Sunday morning.

Winds will shift to strong and gusty southwesterly direction overnight then persist through Sunday morning in the wake of the low.

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Local utility outages are possible. Damage to roofs, fences, branches or soft shelters is possible. There is a risk of injury due to flying or falling debris.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to BCstorm@ec.gc.ca or post reports on social media using #BCStorm.

Measurements

Coordinates49.4298, -123.0366
RegionMetro Vancouver - North Shore including West Vancouver and North Vancouver
Location Precisionpolygon
Issuing AuthorityCanada — ca-msc-xx
Cap UrgencyFuture
Cap CertaintyLikely
Cap Expires2026-11-08T08:41:46-00:00

Official source

Warnings courtesy of the issuing national meteorological service, via the WMO Alert Hub.

This is an official warning issued by the authority named above. Follow its instructions and those of your local emergency services.

Severity as published by WMO Alert Hub (national weather services).

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Source updated 53 minutes ago (Nov 7, 2026 16:44 UTC) · we last heard from WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) 38 seconds ago

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