{"id":601309,"date":"2026-04-13T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601309\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:14:11","slug":"rainy-start-to-week-includes-warning-west-of-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601309\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy start to week includes warning west of Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/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>The Ottawa-Gatineau area is entering a mid-April wet spell that includes some widespread weather alerts.<\/p>\n<p>The Deep River and Algonquin Park area are under a rainfall warning that calls for a total of 25 to 50 millimetres of rain Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Western Quebec has a special weather statement about 20 to 40 millimetres of rain and eastern Ontario outside the Kingston-Belleville area has a statement about 20 to 30.<\/p>\n<p>The weather station at Ottawa&#8217;s international airport recorded about 16 millimetres of rain Sunday starting early that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>That rain is not expected to continue to Monday night, but there could be more on Tuesday, according to Environment Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa&#8217;s forecast has at least a chance of showers every day this week and above-average temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities are not forecasting anything worse than nuisance spring flooding in low-lying areas. There are flood watches in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rvca.ca\/news\/watershed-condition-statements\/flood-watch-issued-for-upper-watershed-lakes-as-water-levels-continue-to-rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Tay Valley and Rideau Lakes areas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quinteconservation.ca\/news\/posts\/2026-04-10-quinte-conservation-extends-flood-watch-due-to-weekend-rainfall-on-melting-snow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quinte Conservation&#8217;s inland waterways<\/a>.<\/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":601310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-601309","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\/601309","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=601309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}