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Analyses

Attention

The “Surface Analysis”, “Upper Air Analysis”, “Snow Depth”, “Sea Surface Temperature” and “Sea Ice Cover” map products will be decommissioned by the end of 2026. We invite you to migrate to MSC AniMet, a tool that allows users to interact with MSC open data and create customized animated maps for any region of the world. The resulting animations can be downloaded and shared with a permalink. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Understanding current conditions is the starting point, and the most critical part, of any weather forecast.

Hundreds of weather stations, ships, and aircraft across Canada, the US, and the rest of the world report readings of temperature, pressure, wind, moisture and precipitation. These reports are received at the CMC, and used to improve our picture of the current state of the atmosphere. The analyses made available four times daily on this page provide the latest snapshots of the state of the atmosphere over Canada and the Northern Hemisphere.

Surface Analysis: Mean Sea Level Pressure
Preliminary
(Canadian coverage)†		 Complete
(Northern Hemispheric coverage)†
00 00
06 06
12 12
18 18
Regional Deterministic Precipitation Analysis (RDPA)
Accumulation Canada† Eastern Canada† Western Canada†
6 Hour Prelim 00 00 00
06 06 06
12 12 12
18 18 18
Final 00 00 00
06 06 06
12 12 12
18 18 18
24 Hour Prelim 12 12 12
Final 12 12 12

†All times are represented in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Upper Air Analysis

Miscellaneous Analysis

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Customized Weather shortcuts

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Copy/paste or click on the link below then when the page displays, you can bookmark the page using the web browser. Bookmarking your customized list will allow you to access it even if the local storage on your device is erased.

Features

New: Colour-coded weather alerts

Learn more about weather alerting in Canada

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