The people who give us a pretty good idea what it’s going to be like on the weather front now have a new tool in their arsenal: colour coded weather alerts.

Every type of weather alert – warnings, advisories, and watches – now has a colour when it is issued. The alerts move from yellow, to orange, to red as the potential risk increases.

Jim Prime, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says events such as Hurricane Fiona, which struck Nova Scotia, PEI and the southwest coast of Newfoundland, and Snowmageddon, which battered the Avalon Peninsula, would be code red.

“When we’re looking at extreme, we’re thinking of recovery over days or a very widespread extreme impact, however something with a yellow warning would be more short term such as travel delays, whiteout conditions for a shor

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