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Yes. The map pulls directly from the Environment Canada (ECCC) GeoMet WMS feed at the RADAR_1KM_RRAI layer, which combines 1 km horizontal resolution data from every ECCC weather radar station across Canada. The feed refreshes every six minutes, which matches the ECCC operational update cadence on the underlying Doppler dual-polarisation radar network (modernised between 2018 and 2023 to S-band coverage). The same GeoMet source feeds The Weather Network, CBC weather, Environnement Canada's own MétéoMedia partners, and most professional broadcast meteorologists. You are seeing what professional meteorologists see, on the same six-minute refresh cycle, with no editorial overlay or commercial filter — raw reflectivity data from the national radar network rendered on a clean dark-mode map.

No. The radar page is completely free and public, requires no account, no email signup, no payment method on file, and no installation. We do not track who views the page beyond anonymous aggregate analytics (page-view counts, country of origin, no IP retention beyond 24 hours, no fingerprinting, no third-party ad pixels). There is nothing to install on your device — the page works in any modern browser on phone, tablet, or desktop. Bookmark snow.ca/technology/weather-intelligence and come back whenever you need to check the storm track. The radar continues to be free during your snow.ca service contract, after your service contract ends, and even if you are not a customer.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). They operate the national radar network — 32 weather radar stations spanning every province and providing usable coverage to about 96 % of the Canadian population — and publish the data openly through their GeoMet web service under the Government of Canada open-data licence. ECCC operates the data; we render it. The radar imagery you see on this page is identical to what ECCC publishes on weather.gc.ca, refreshed at the same six-minute interval, just composited onto a clean dark-themed map alongside the 80+ Canadian cities where snow.ca operates so it is easy to spot the storm cell heading toward your property. No editorial layer, no proprietary modelling, no AI hallucination — it is ECCC data on an ECCC refresh cycle.

For storm-event emergency commercial dispatch, call 888-471-SNOW option 1 — the line is staffed 24/7 during winter season (November through April) and routes directly to the duty dispatcher for your city. For a routine quote (you do not have a contract yet and want one set up before the next storm), use the quote tool at /quote with your address and property type — residential and small-commercial quotes return within one business day, large-commercial and municipal quotes within 1–2 business days after a property walk. snow.ca covers residential snow removal, commercial plowing and salting, condo and townhouse route service, institutional (hospital, school, government) contracts, and municipal route tenders in 80+ Canadian cities across all 10 provinces. Storm-event surge dispatch for non-customers is available on a best-efforts basis but contracted customers are routed first.

It is useful, and it is a service we already pay for to run our own dispatch. Property managers and homeowners check radar constantly during winter to know when the next storm is coming, whether they need a crew on-site, and whether to pre-treat the property with anti-icing brine. snow.ca dispatch uses the same radar feed to queue local crews from the nearest depot — the moment Environment Canada model output crosses the contracted accumulation threshold for your city, your crew is queued and your property manager gets a pre-storm dispatch notification. We make the same radar view public, free, with no account requirement, because there is no business reason to gate it. It is also a fair audit surface: when you compare our pre-storm dispatch timing to the radar track, you can verify we acted on the actual storm, not on a marketing schedule.