Yellow Warning - Wind

Damaging winds are expected.

When: Early this evening.

What: Wind gusts up to 90 km/h

Where: - White Pass - Atlin - Teslin - Whitehorse - Haines Junction - Pelly-Carmacks.

Additional Information: A deep low pressure system moving across the central Yukon will move into the Northwest Territories tonight. Very strong southerly winds gusting up to 90 km/h will ease this evening.

By early Wednesday morning the low will have moved out of the Yukon and winds will ease to light at that time.

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Local utility outages are possible. High-sided vehicles will be pushed around by the wind.

Wind warnings are issued when there is a significant risk of damaging winds.

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.