The National Public Alerting System currently issues emergency notifications for tornadoes and severe storms
OTTAWA — As wildfires rage in western Canada, a communications and broadcasting policy expert says the national weather alerting system should account for a wider range of extreme events.
As of now, the National Public Alerting System — publicly known as Alert Ready — issues emergency notifications for tornadoes and severe storms. Erik de Groot, an associate director with Environment Canada, had no comment on the question of expanding the weather alerting system to include events such as wildfires or heat waves.
Nearly 2,300 alerts have been issued under the Alert Ready system from 2019 to Aug. 13, 2023. While most alerts were weather-related, some involved missing children or civic emergencies. "We've improved our radar network over the last five years. We're finishing up that, which has helped us, but it's not going to be perfect and probably it will never be perfect," de Groot said.
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