Environment Canada Issues B.c. Wind Warnings - Beritaja

Environment Canada has issued upwind warnings for parts of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the confederate Gulf Islands.

The upwind agency says a debased unit strategy is bringing beardown gusts of up to 90 km/h to parts of Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island, expected to past into Sunday morning.

Environment Canada says it issues the warnings erstwhile there’s a “significant risk” of harm from precocious winds, including powerfulness outages, and is besides informing of snowfall connected the Coquihalla Highway betwixt Hope and Merritt, and connected a mountainous agelong of Highway 3 successful the B.C. interior.

BC Hydro says its dealing pinch a number of outages successful the Lower Mainland and connected Vancouver Island, wherever trees person fallen down crossed wires, affecting thousands of customers.

The institution says much than 3,000 customers are without powerfulness successful southeast Vancouver, pinch crews connected tract for an outage that is nether investigation successful the Victoria-Fraserview neighbourhood.

BC Hydro says its besides dealing pinch an outage caused by fallen trees successful Esquimalt connected Vancouver Island, pinch much than 1,800 customers without power.

Environment Canada warned of flooding from a autumn large wind strategy hitting the B.C. seashore connected Friday, pinch precocious winds and dense rains cancelling ferry sailings and swelling waterways.

Police said Friday that 8 group had to beryllium rescued connected bluish Vancouver Island adjacent Port Hardy aft flash flooding abnormal vehicles that became trapped by floodwaters and debris that blocked a roadworthy successful some directions.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 25, 2025.