1 text/xml image/tiff image/png image/png24 image/png32 image/bmp image/gif image/jpeg image/svg image/bil XML INIMAGE BLANK 0 Agriculture is an important primary production sector in Canada. Agricultural production, profitability, sustainability and food security depend on many agrometeorological factors. Extreme weather events in Canada, such as drought, floods, heat waves, frosts and high intensity storms, have the ability to significantly impact field crop production. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) have together developed a suite of extreme agrometeorological indices based on four main categories of weather factors: temperature, precipitation, heat, and wind. The extreme weather indices are intended as short-term prediction tools and generated using ECCC's medium range forecasts to create a weekly index product on a daily basis. Winds can significantly influence crop growth and yield mainly due to mechanical damage of plant vegetative and reproductive organs, an imbalance of plant-soil-atmosphere water relationships such as evapotranspiration, and pest and disease distributions in agricultural fields. The maximum wind speed and the number of strong wind days over the forecast period represent short term and extended strong wind events respectively. For more information, visit: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c5569a81-2942-4ac4-8eaa-9a9d731b4c79 CRS:84 EPSG:4326 EPSG:3857 -145.742965-48.23982438.48969283.742648 wind:None 2026-04-30T12:00:00.0Z/2026-05-01T12:00:00.0Z/P1S wind:drying 2026-04-30T12:00:00.0Z/2026-05-01T12:00:00.0Z/P1S wind:mdws 2026-04-30T12:00:00.0Z/2026-05-01T12:00:00.0Z/P1S wind:nswd 2026-04-30T12:00:00.0Z/2026-05-01T12:00:00.0Z/P1S wind:probability 2026-04-30T12:00:00.0Z/2026-05-01T12:00:00.0Z/P1S 2026-04-30T12:00:00.0Z/2026-05-01T12:00:00.0Z/P1S