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Major Announcement for Environment Canada


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Last year the Harper Government announced $27million over the next two years for urgent needs within the crumbling weather service. I don't know if this $78million is a new addition or if the gov't has increased the initial funding. According to one source...a new standardized warning system is in development and could be operational by 2013.

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Major infrastructure upgrade underway including...

The radar network

The warning system

Aviation/marine/arctic monitoring

Data access

Lightning network

Training/software upgrades

Excerpts from the media release...

Harper Government Strengthens Canada's Weather and Warning Systems

TORONTO, Ont. -- January 20, 2012 -- Today, the Honourable Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment, announced that the Harper Government is investing $78.7 million over the next five years to strengthen weather monitoring infrastructure, ensuring Canadians continued access to world-class weather, water and climate monitoring data.

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The infrastructure upgrades will strengthen the Department's core weather monitoring networks including the weather radar network, which is the backbone of Canada's severe weather warnings service. The upgrades will also modernize the monitoring infrastructure and help Environment Canada's weather service keep pace with the rapid evolution of new science and technologies.

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The areas of weather and climate monitoring infrastructure that will be upgraded include: Canadian Weather Radar Network ($45.2M), Canadian Weather and Climate Observing Networks ($18.8M), Canadian Aerological Network ($4.2M) and the Canadian Lightning Detection Network ($10.5M).

This new funding complements the Meteorological Service of Canada's ten-year strategic plan that addresses critical infrastructure, scientific advancements, life-cycle management strategies and important services delivered to all Canadians.

http://www.ec.gc.ca/...2F-C1FAEB4C0958

Information on what is being upgraded: http://www.ec.gc.ca/...EE-729855FCEA65

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so they're going dual pol all across? that'll be nice. now if the public and non-ec mets could get full-range base and sr velocitiy (240km) data displayed from them, not just the 120km base velocity from the weather underground and the cappi plots from their main site, that would take them to the next level.

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so they're going dual pol all across? that'll be nice. now if we can only the public and non-ec mets could get full-range velocity (240km) data displayed from them, not just the 120km base velocity from the weather underground and the cappi plots from their main site, that would take them to the next level.

There is still hope that they will allow public access to full radar products... and wunderground seems like the first step to this. The things I'd to for Canadian radar on programs like Gibson Ridge etc...

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Look at that: a government investing in public infrastructure! What a concept.

Hopefully, this will help improve forecasting here as well, with more data coming from Canada and maybe better modeling coming out of them too. Now we can know more than 4 days in advance that it's not gonna snow.

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so they're going dual pol all across? that'll be nice. now if the public and non-ec mets could get full-range base and sr velocitiy (240km) data displayed from them, not just the 120km base velocity from the weather underground and the cappi plots from their main site, that would take them to the next level.

I like it.

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