What's New

• Improved User Options in Radar Imagery Section . October 11,2006
• World Weather Content Changes . July 20,2006
• Afternoon Forecast Updates Have an Additional Time Period - Dec 13,2005
• Standard Region Names - May 18,2005
• New 5 day weather pages - January 26,2005

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