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Yellow Warning - Wind

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Greater Victoria

Status In Progress Started 41 minutes ago
Ends
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Severity Moderate
Urgency Future
Certainty Likely

Details

Damaging winds are expected.
Strong winds shifting to southwest winds gusting to 90 km/h overnight.
Where: Greater Victoria, Southern Gulf Islands, Malahat Highway.
When: Tonight and Sunday morning.
Remarks : Another strong low pressure system continues to move across the South Coast tonight. Strong winds will shift to southwesterlies overnight with gusts to 90 km/h. The strong winds will gradually ease on Sunday morning.
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Local utility outages are possible. High-sided vehicles will be pushed around by the wind. 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

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