Environment Canada announced today that it is transitioning to a new colour-coded system for weather alerts.
Under the new system, yellow alerts are issued when there is potential for moderate damage or health impacts, orange alerts are for more severe conditions and red alerts warn of potentially extreme and life-threatening weather.
Any of these colours can be applied to the different kinds of alerts, which are warnings, advisories and watches.
Environment Canada says the system aligns with best practices put out by the World Meteorological Organization.
They say the new system is intended to simplify the information for Canadians as to how weather could have an impact in their specific region.
