{"id":66914,"date":"2025-08-13T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:43:07","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-watch-in-effect-for-much-of-quebec-following-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66914\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for much of Quebec following extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for a large area of the province, including Montreal, Quebec City, the Eastern Townships, the Lower St. Lawrence region northern Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>This comes several days after Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) issued a heat warning, which is still in effect. The agency\u00a0says it will likely be the last day of intense heat for the areas affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, ECCC said\u00a0conditions are favourable for a potentially dangerous thunderstorm to develop in the afternoon or early evening. It says the storm could produce strong winds, large hail and heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a slight risk for a tornado to form.\u00a0Power outages are possible.<\/p>\n<p>ECCC says to take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches. If outdoors, protect yourself from hair and flying debris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When thunder roars, go indoors! Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year,&#8221; writes ECCC\u00a0in the watch alert.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for a large area of the province, including Montreal, Quebec City,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-66914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66914","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=66914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}