{"id":540380,"date":"2026-03-16T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:47:08","slug":"winter-thunderstorm-watch-in-place-for-ottawa-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540380\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter thunderstorm watch in place for Ottawa area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Late-winter thunderstorms could signal a drastic temperature change in communities such as Ottawa, Brockville and Cornwall Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada has a severe thunderstorm watch in place four days before the start of spring.<\/p>\n<p>The storm could bring strong wind, heavy rain, hail and lightning, according to forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>Some places in the watch could see daily heat records before the cold front whips up conditions for the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa, for example, could go from around 0 C at 5 a.m. Monday to 14 C at 5 p.m. and back around \u20135 C by 5 a.m. The cold should stick around Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Watches mean severe weather is possible. A warning means forecasters have evidence that weather is happening or about to happen.<\/p>\n<p>The Kingston-Belleville area could see gusts around 80 km\/h starting Monday afternoon and ending Tuesday morning, according to an Environment Canada special weather statement.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/sudbury\/livestory\/ontario-winter-weather-warning-highway-closures-power-outages-9.7130111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">orange-level storm warnings<\/a> for the Barrie and Sudbury areas not far to the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-540380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540380","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=540380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}