Environment and Climate Change mothballs WeatherRadio service (Alberta)

Canada’s WeatherRadio service has gone silent.

On Monday, March 16, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) shut down its bilingual radio weather network, which broadcast local weather information and warnings on about 225 FM transmitters nationwide 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As part of the same move, ECCC also shuttered its Hello Weather phone service.

The move is estimated to save the government department $4 million annually.

The network of transmitters, 20 of which are in Alberta, with the nearest to the Town and Country This Week’s readership area in Whitecourt (162.550 MHz) was created in the 1970s to communicate weather information, especially weather alerts, to residents.

Environment and Climate Change Canada estimated the automated broadcast reached roughly 90 per cent of Canadians.

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