Howe Sound
Forecast
Marine Forecast
Issued 04:00 PM PST 14 December 2025
Tonight and Monday.
Wind northerly outflow 5 to 15 knots becoming light after midnight then increasing to southerly inflow 15 to 25 late overnight. Wind increasing to southerly inflow 30 near noon Monday then diminishing to southerly inflow 10 to 20 Monday evening.
Rain changing to scattered showers Monday evening. Visibility as low as 1 mile in rain.
Strong wind warning program has ended for the season.
Extended Forecast
Issued 04:00 PM PST 14 December 2025
Tuesday
Wind southerly inflow 10 to 20 knots
increasing to southerly inflow 25 late in the day.
Wednesday
Wind southerly inflow 10 to 20
knots.
Thursday
Wind northerly outflow 10 to 20 knots
becoming southerly inflow 10 to 20.
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Synopsis
Technical Marine Synopsis
Issued 4:00 PM PST 14 December 2025 Tonight and Monday At 4:00 p.m. PST today deepening low 963 mb located northwestof Bowie.
By 4:00 p.m. PST today frontal system located on a line
northeast-southwest over Haida Gwaii.
At 4:00 p.m. PST today low 982 mb located over northwestern
Explorer.
At 10:00 p.m. PST tonight warm front from low located on a line
northeast-southwest over the Central Coast.
By 10:00 a.m. PST Monday cold front located west of Vancouver
Island.
At 4:00 p.m. PST Monday approaching low 983 mb located west
of Bowie.
Marine Weather Statement
Issued 4:02 PM PST 14 December 2025 An intensifying frontal system is passing through the North Coast.Gale to storm force southeasterly winds will shift to gale to storm
force southwesterly winds tonight.
On Monday, this system will move southeastward across the southern
waters with southerly gales ahead of the front and strong to gale
force westerly winds behind the front.
The active weather pattern continues as another low approaches Bowie
Monday afternoon spreading gale to storm force southwesterly over the
northern waters.
Pacific - South Coast Area
- Bowie - southern half
- Central Coast from McInnes Island to Pine Island
- Explorer - northwestern half
- Explorer - southeastern half
- Haro Strait
- Hecate Strait - southern half
- Howe Sound
- Johnstone Strait
- Juan de Fuca Strait - central strait
- Juan de Fuca Strait - east entrance
- Juan de Fuca Strait - west entrance
- Queen Charlotte Sound - eastern half
- Queen Charlotte Sound - western half
- Queen Charlotte Strait
- Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo
- Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo
- West Coast Haida Gwaii - southern half
- West Coast Vancouver Island North
- West Coast Vancouver Island South
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