The Meteorological Service of Canada ( MSC ; French : Service météorologique du Canada – SMC ) is a branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada , which primarily provides public meteorological information and weather forecasts and warnings of severe weather and other environmental hazards. MSC also monitors and conducts research on the climate , atmospheric science , air quality , water quantities, ice and other environmental issues . MSC operates a network of radio stations throughout Canada transmitting weather and environmental information 24 hours a day called Weatheradio Canada .
6-638: The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is a division of the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), which is a branch of Canada's Department of the Environment and Climate Change . The CIS is the leading authority for information about ice in Canada's navigable waters. Ice affects marine transportation in Canada's heartland as well as in the North, commercial fishing, offshore resource development,
12-839: The Department of Transport as the Meteorological Division of the Air Services Branch' and as the Meteorological Branch from 1956. In 1939, the Meteorological Division, Air Services Branch was expanding rapidly to serve commercial aviation. In September 1939 the full-time staff of the Meteorological Division based in Toronto numbered 213, of which 51 were meteorologists and 57 were meteorological observers. In 1971
18-731: The Canadian Meteorological Service was established under the Department of Environment ( Environment Canada ) in 1971. The AES was renamed later as the Meteorological Service of Canada . There are currently six public weather forecast offices: There are two centres dedicated to aviation weather forecasting: Canadian Meteorological Aviation Centre-East, located in Montreal, and Canadian Meteorological Aviation Centre-West, located in Edmonton. MSC also operates
24-996: The hunting and fishing patterns of aboriginal peoples, tourism and recreation, and local weather patterns and long-term climate. The mission of the CIS is to provide the most timely and accurate information possible about ice in Canada's navigable waters. In support of this, its two main objectives are to ensure the safety of Canadians, their property and their environment by warning them of hazardous ice conditions in navigable Canadian waters, and to provide present and future generations of Canadians with sufficient knowledge about their ice environment in order to support sound environmental policies. The CIS has approximately 60 employees at its headquarters in Ottawa , Ontario. Meteorological Service of Canada Prior to 1840, meteorological observations in Canada were made by private individuals, other entities (like HBC ), and explorers, but this information
30-551: The new Dominion of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $ 5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a network of weather observations. This information was collected and made available to the public from 1877 onwards. The MSC was then assigned under the Department of Marine and Fisheries . From 1936 to 1946 the services assigned under
36-646: Was not provided to the general public. In 1840, British officials ( British Ordnance Department ) and the Royal Society established an observatory in Toronto, Canada West , one of a few across the British Empire and likely modeled after the Royal Observatory, Greenwich . The Toronto observatory ended in 1853, but the colonial government of the province of Canada took over the service and continued collecting climate data. On May 1, 1871,
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