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AHC Canada is a Tropical information service for Atlantic Canada. AHC also educates citizens of different weather events, and, how to prepare for them.
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The AHO Canada formerly AHC Canada formed on June 01, 2004. We are non-for-profit Canadian organization. AHO Canada tracks tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. We report on cyclones affecting or going to affect Atlantic Canada. AHO Canada also alerts the public in conjunction with local weather agencies, of all threats to land and marine as a result of tropical cyclones.

Atlantic Hurricane Organization (Canada), abbreviated AHO Canada, tracks tropical disturbances in the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. We report on potential tropical cyclones to affect Atlantic Canada, Quebec, and Ontario. Traditionally we did all of this but on a more international scale, but as of June 15, 2016 that changed. We also educate the public, and try to gain awareness of tropical cyclone dangers, and how to prepare for them. We report Statements, Watches, Advisories, and Warnings from the Canadian Hurricane Centre, on behalf of Environment and Climate Change Canada.

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29 Main Avenue
Halifax, NS
B3M1A2

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http://www.atlantichurricanecentre.com

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Our Story

AHO Canada started in June of 2004 as the Atlantic Hurricane Center, our first website was hosted on the now defunct Yahoo! Geocities. This offered us a free platform to forecast and track tropical cyclones for the Atlantic region of Canada. While we remained unknown for many years, we continued to operate as best as we could. With the launch of various social media platforms, the Atlantic Hurricane Center launched a page in 2010. We ceased operating a website that same year. In the early days of our social media page, we remained small with a small following. As the hurricane season intensified that year, Hurricane Earl was headed for the Canadian Maritimes. Countless hours were spent, with lots of coffee consumed, to track Earl. With days to go before Earl was to affect Nova Scotia, our page count increased by the hundreds, and later, by the thousands. The Atlantic Hurricane Center didn't just track Earl, we provided live updates as Earl approached Nova Scotia, every detail was posted. When Earl greatly affected Nova Scotia, content uploaded to the page included power outages, news reports, and live weather reports as they were received. Hundreds of people posted their own live reports from their community, place of work, and their home. These live community reports gave the Atlantic Hurricane Center a real time look of how Earl was affecting the region.

Since then, now called AHO Canada formally called Atlantic Hurricane Organization (Canada), continues the traditions adopted in the early days of social media. AHO Canada has adopted new ways of connecting with the organization with the launch of a 1-877 toll-free number, a new and developing website, while remaining within the limited budget.

Since the launch of AHO Canada and former pages associated with weather, new pages dedicated to weather forecasting have emerged, a testamate to the great work AHO Canada has done over the years.