RSS Hurricane Feeds
To make hurricane information accessible in more ways the Canadian Hurricane Centre has begun offering their Hurricane Information Statements and Hurricane Watches and Bulletins as RSS feeds.
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way of summarizing the latest web site news and information in a simple form that can be easily read by news readers or news aggregators. The idea is to give users the ability to quickly obtain the latest news and updates from a web site in a news digest format. This in turn, will help reduce the load on the web servers during high traffic periods.
When you subscribe to Environment Canada's RSS Hurricane feed you will receive the same information that is available through our Hurricane E-mail Subscription service but the big difference is that you are not required to supply an e-mail address, eliminating any potential privacy concerns.
How do I use RSS?
Whenever you see  beside a topic on the Canadian Hurricane Centre web site, it will link you to an RSS product feed URL that you will need to input if you want subscribe (see steps below).
The basic process is as follows:
- Download / Signup to a free RSS feed reader of your choice.
- Copy and paste one or both of the URLs below into the address bar of the RSS feed reader you selected above.
- RSS Feed for Canadian Hurricane Watches / Warnings Bulletins http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/hurricaneWatch.rss.en
- RSS Feed for Canadian Hurricane Information Statements: http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/hurricanes.rss.en
- Please note: you will not see any content if the Canadian Hurricane Centre is not currently tracking a storm. Once a hurricane / tropical storm has the potential to affect Canadian territory, a Hurricane Information Statement will first be issued, followed by a Hurricane Watch and then finally a Hurricane Warning bulletin (if needed).
Please note that you should not rely totally on forecasts from this service because:
- This is a new service that started on September 1, 2004 and interruptions are to be expected while we fine-tune the service.
- This service may not be available 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week. Therefore the timely delivery of forecasts is not guaranteed.
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