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Yellow Warning - Wind

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Greater Victoria

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Severity Moderate
Urgency Future
Certainty Likely

Details

Damaging winds are expected.
Strong southeasterly winds gusting to 90 km/h developing this evening and shifting to southwest winds gusting to 90 km/h overnight.
Where: Greater Victoria, Southern Gulf Islands.
When: This evening until 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, shift to southwest overnight, then ease Sunday morning.
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Local utility outages are 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.

Instructions

Secure loose objects.
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