{"id":520827,"date":"2026-03-07T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520827\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:31:15","slug":"yellow-warning-for-rainfall-in-ottawa-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/520827\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Yellow&#8217; warning for rainfall in Ottawa area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canada\u2019s weather service has issued a \u201cyellow warning\u201d for the Capital Saturday, calling for showers through the morning and risks of thunderstorms late this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Environment Canada forecasts total precipitation of five to 10 mm, with winds out of the southwest at 30 km\/h gusting to 50 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The agency cautioned that frozen ground in the area \u201chas a reduced ability to absorb this rainfall \u2026 Water will likely pool on roads and in low-lying areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A yellow warning means the impact of the weather is considered moderate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday\u2019s high temperature is expected to hit 11 C, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The showers are expected to end late in the afternoon, followed by cloudy periods with 40 per cent chance of showers or drizzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was no indication the weather would affect the long-awaited St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade, returning to Ottawa\u2019s downtown for the first time since the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s weather service has issued a \u201cyellow warning\u201d for the Capital Saturday, calling for showers through the morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,14881,205483,20739,205482],"class_list":{"0":"post-520827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment-canada","11":"tag-julie-oliver","12":"tag-ottawa","13":"tag-weather-service"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}