Weather warning side companies like Weather Watch or Instant Weather. These side companies are not associated with the government in any way. Environment Canada defines a advisory as ""an alert to cover a wide array of deteriorating weather conditions,"" a watch as ""when conditions favour that severe weather forming"" and a warning as ""severe weather is actually occurring or is imminent."" . Additionally, Environment Canada breaks down weather alerts based upon the specific type of hazardous weather. These alerts are regionally issued throughout Canada and include, but are not limited to, winter storms, extreme temperature, ice, thunderstorms (including tornadoes), wind, tsunami, tropical
Weather balloon well as ships and aircraft (usually dropsondes in this case). In recent years weather balloons have also been used for scattering human ashes at high-altitude by companies such as Stardust Ashes, founded by Chester Mojay-Sinclare. The Weather balloon was also used to create the fictional entity 'Rover' during production of the 1960s TV series 'The Prisoner' in Portmeirion, Gwynedd, North Wales, UK in September 1966. This was retained in further scenes shot at MGM Borehamwood UK during 1966-67. Weather balloon A weather or sounding balloon is a balloon (specifically a type of high-altitude balloon) that carries instruments aloft to send