Weather Conditions – Immediate to Short Term |
General Forecasts |
Environment Canada Watches and Warnings |
Environment Canada Marine Warnings and Watches |
Maritime / Ocean |
Canadian Hurricane Center Hurricane Track |
NOAA Ocean Prediction Center – Atlantic |
NOAA National Hurricane Center |
Tropical Tidbits Analysis tools page (predominantly hurricane and tropical storms) |
Hurricane Spaghetti Models |
Tide forecasts for Nova Scotia and the rest of Canada |
Wave height forecast from Environment Canada |
Canada Surf Map – Wind and Wave Energy |
Atmosphere |
Wind map and forecast for Atlantic Canada (windy.com) |
Wundermap including personal weather stations and layers |
Real Time Lightning Maps |
Fire Risk / Conditions |
Natural Resources Fire Risk |
Space |
Space Weather (Geomagnetic Storms) from NOAA |
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General Situational Awareness Portals and Reports |
Wildfire |
Fire Information for Resource Management System, Active Weather Fire Forecast
Canadian Inter agency Forest Fire Portal |
Provincial fire resources and mapping: BC, AB, AB(map), YK, YK(map), NWT, SK,, SK(map), MB, NU, ON, ON(map), PQ, NL, NB, PEI, NS |
Flood |
Government of Canada (Nat Resources) Active Flood portal |
Active Floods in Canada (Open Maps – interactive) |
Flood and River Ice Break Up from Natural Resources / Public Safety |
Real Time Hydrometric Data Map |
Hurricane |
National Hurricane Center (NOAA), Environment Canada Hurricane Center |
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Infrastructure Condition |
Power outages across Canada – |
Regional Power Outage maps – BC, AB, (ABFortis), SK, MB, ON (ON HydroOne), (Toronto Hydro), PQ, NB, PEI, NL, NS, YK (Yukon Energy), NWT, NU |
Road conditions (511): BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, PQ, NB, PEI, NL, NS, YK, NWT, NU |
Down detector (various services including banking and telecommunications) |
Halifax Stanfield International Airport Flights Page (can select arrivals and departures) |
Nova Scotia snow plow tracker |
Enhanced Response Estimator |
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General Mapping |
Nova Scotia Arc GIS |
Nova Scotia Civic Address Location |
Nova Scotia Trails |
Snowmobile Association of Canada Trail Map |
Toporama map of Canada |
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First Aid / Medical (Remember, if emergency call 911) |
2020 Transport Canada Emergency Guidebook for Hazardous Materials |
Alert Ready Canada landing page |
St John Ambulance First Aid Reference Guide |
Nova Scotia Hospital Wait Times (times are based on lower end of triage scale…if an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room as per the guidance on their website). |
Atlantic Poison Control |
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Integration with Emergency Management Offices or Teams |
ICS Canada Forms (worth getting in touch with them directly too) |
Guidance with respect to Trunked and Mobile Radio |
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Transportation Network |
Flight Aware – near real time worldwide aircraft tracking. Flight Radar flight tracking. |
Vesselfinder – near real time tracking for ships based on AIS. MyShipTracking open AIS. |
GeOps Live Train Tracker-can drill down to regional levels and track trains to see future stops. |
Google Traffic – North American start point but can zoom into local streets for near real time traffic issues. |
Waze – live traffic but crowd-sourced information (relies on willingness to report). Also can provide routing. |
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