Environment Canada makes all weather data shown on their website freely available for anybody to use as long as credit is given to them, and no affiliation is assumed. I wrote this script because I wanted to get emails whenever a weather warning was issued in my area, and as far as I could tell, there wasn’t a free service like this out there.

It’s still in beta, and I haven’t done too much QA on it, but I think it’s ready for public consumption. The site is a bit rough, but I’ll get to that in time. My main concern was getting it up and running.

I use a PHP script and a CRON job to act as a daemon, and that posed a couple of problems when it came to sending emails. In retrospect, I should have just written a perl script to do the job.

You’ll have to supply a valid email address to get the service, but I will NOT use it for any purpose other than sending you warnings. I also, have no plans to make this a commercial service.

If you have any comments or suggestions, or you find any bugs, please leave a comment here, or email me at chris@chriscraig.net.

Check out the Weather Warning page to subscribe.

I hope you find this service useful.