A heavy rainfall warning has been issued for the Ottawa and Gatineau regions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The advisories posted by Environment Canada<\/a> on Friday projected between 20 and 40 millimetres of rain, a situation that would be complicated by the ground\u2019s limited ability to absorb further moisture following other recent rainfall events.<\/p>\n According to the weather agency, a Colorado low-pressure system was expected to bring rain to the national capital region starting Saturday afternoon, but the heaviest precipitation was forecast for the evening and overnight.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Water will likely pool on roads and in low-lying areas, and visibility will likely be reduced at times, Environment Canada said, adding that thunderstorms were possible in some area.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our homepage<\/a> and sign up for our newsletters<\/a>\u00a0so we can keep you informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavy rainfall warning has been issued for the Ottawa and Gatineau regions on Saturday. The advisories posted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,14881,218107,20862,222351,20739,222352,194793],"class_list":{"0":"post-580681","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-gatineau","12":"tag-heavy-rain","13":"tag-heavy-rainfall-warning","14":"tag-ottawa","15":"tag-rainfall-events","16":"tag-tony-caldwell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580681","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=580681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}