In addition to providing Canadians with up-to-date information on past, present and future weather conditions, Environment Canada offers multiple data access services to specialized users that require information at regular intervals and in an unprocessed form.

If you have further questions about these data services, please contact us to discuss your needs and how we can help.

Details regarding the conditions of usage for RSS Feeds and WeatherLink can be found by visiting our Important Notices page.

RSS Feeds
WeatherLink

RSS Feeds

Users that require timely and automatic weather updates, without the hassle of constantly viewing or refreshing the "weatheroffice.gc.ca" web site, can take advantage of a convenient RSS feed subscription. These feeds can be delivered directly to a desktop or mobile device in a news digest format. Most browsers and cell phones are already equipped with the necessary elements to support RSS, and there are numerous RSS Readers available for free downloading.

If receiving timely weather information is important to you, you may want to consider a subscription to one or more of Environment Canada's weather RSS feeds:

• Current Condition & Forecast RSS - contains the latest current conditions and 7 day forecast details for a town/city. This feed offers the following weather elements:
  • Warning/Watch events from issue time to the time it is ended;
  • Current Conditions: Hourly weather conditions, temperature, pressure, visibility, humidity, dewpoint, wind, air quality health index*, and windchill/humidex (* where available); and
  • Forecast for 7 days.

  Note: RSS feed for some locations may not have all the above weather elements.

  The Current Condition & Forecast RSS link is located at the bottom of all Current Conditions & Forecast web pages.

• Warning RSS - will alert you when a watch or warning is in effect for a selected region. We offer two levels of Warning RSS feeds:
  • Small geographic coverage is associated with the Current Condition & Forecast web pages, which will alert of watches/warnings in a specific community city or town. This link is located at the bottom of all Current Conditions & Forecast web pages.
  • Large geographic coverage is associated with the report page of the Public warnings which will alert of watches/warnings in a given region. This link is located at the bottom of the Public Warnings content section of Warnings.
  
  
• Marine RSS - consists of latest Marine weather updates as well as watches and/or warnings for an entire area including splits. This feed contains the following weather elements:
  • Marine Warning/Watch events including ice warnings from issue time to the time it is ended;
  • Forecast weather conditions includes: winds, waves, weather & visibility and outlooks for up to 5 days; and
  • The link to the Marine RSS can be found at the bottom of the marine forecast web page.

How do I get started?

The process is simple: Once you download and install an RSS Reader, whenever you come across the orange RSS graphic , simply click on the image and copy the URL from the address bar of your browser and paste it into the appropriate field of your RSS feed reader.

WeatherLink

Do you want to provide yourself and your website visitors with up-to-date weather information? Environment Canada's weather information can be available at your fingertips by following some simple steps.

Below are two examples. One that alternates between forecast and current conditions and the other is static forecast information where no current conditions are available for the location.

By clicking on these Weatherlinks, you are linked directly into Environment Canada's website where you can receive full weather details, including weather watches and warnings.

To add these current and forecast conditions *, simply use the HTML Code Creator below to generate the code you require, then cut and paste this HTML code into your web page and you are all done. The above images use Adobe Flash technology and vary in size from 8k to 20k, depending on the data presented.

To use the HTML Code Creator;

1. From the list below, choose the province you want information for. A list of cities available within that province will then appear
2. Select the city that you want.
3. Select the Display Code button and the required code will be generated.
4. All that is left to do is copy and paste the HTML from the code box into the source of your web page.

*Current conditions are subject to availability. Not all forecast locations have current conditions data.