{"id":530946,"date":"2026-03-12T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:46:09","slug":"hydro-quebec-power-outage-affects-thousands-as-freezing-rain-hits-montreal-other-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530946\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydro Quebec power outage affects thousands as freezing rain hits Montreal, other areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1395384_063309_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Hydro Quebec power outage affects thousands as freezing rain hits Montreal, other areas\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More than 74,000 customers across Quebec, Canada were without electricity on Wednesday evening as freezing rain swept through several regions of the province.<\/p>\n<p>According to outage data reported at around 7:35PM, 74,752 addresses were without power. Earlier in the evening, outages had affected as many as 86,250 customers.<\/p>\n<p>The Outaouais and Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie regions were among the hardest hit areas during the storm.<\/p>\n<p>In Montreal, power outages impacted 3,517 addresses. Nearby Longueiul reported more than 7,885 outages as the freezing rain moved through southern Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The storm prompted Environment Canada to issue an orange alert for freezing rain across parts of Greater Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Weather officials warned that between 20 and 30 millimetres of freezing rain could accumulate starting late Wednesday and continuing overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The severe weather also disrupted daily activities across the region. Many schools and universities in Greater Montreal cancelled classes because of the hazardous conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are urging residents to avoid non essential travel during the storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 74,000 customers across Quebec, Canada were without electricity on Wednesday evening as freezing rain swept through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-530946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530946","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=530946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}