Nelson weather today

Environment Canada's Nelson station reads 5 km/h from the NE, measured on the ground in town. This page has no separate sensor out on the water, so treat this as a starting point rather than the exact wind on the lake itself.

Kootenay Lake sits in a long, narrow valley, and wind on the open water can run stronger and gustier than a shore reading suggests, especially where the valley narrows. Anyone heading out by boat or paddling gear should treat the figure above as a baseline and check conditions on the water itself before committing to a crossing.

Warnings come from the same Environment Canada feed as the forecast above, and cover things like a wind warning, a heavy snowfall warning or an extreme cold warning issued for the whole Nelson region rather than for Nelson alone.

Environment Canada has no active weather warning for the Nelson right now.

Weather data from Environment and Climate Change Canada, used under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

This site stores a snapshot from each feed automatically, but it has not yet been running the full year that a month-by-month average needs. Once a year of readings has built up, this section will show Nelson’s typical high and low for each month instead of a single day’s reading.

That kind of average is most useful for planning a trip weeks or months ahead, when the current forecast above has not been issued yet. Until then, the 7-day forecast and today’s reading are the most current picture this page can offer.