{"id":735165,"date":"2026-06-14T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735165\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:08:14","slug":"thunderstorm-watch-in-effect-for-ottawa-and-gatineau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/735165\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm watch in effect for Ottawa and Gatineau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Severe thunderstorm watch advisories have been issued for Ottawa and Gatineau by Environment Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The notices posted at 5:54 p.m. and updated at 6:50 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, said conditions were favourable for the development of \u201csevere thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts and large hail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wind gusts of as much as 90 km\/h and hail up to the size of two-dollar coins were possible, the advisories added.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The advisories also said the thunderstorm watch was expected to end later in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLocal utility outages are possible,\u201d it said. \u201cDamage to roofs, fences, branches or soft shelters is possible. There is a risk of injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:homepage;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;homepage&quot;}\" class=\"link \">homepage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:sign up for our newsletters;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;sign up for our newsletters&quot;}\" class=\"link \">sign up for our newsletters<\/a>\u00a0so we can keep you informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm watch advisories have been issued for Ottawa and Gatineau by Environment Canada. The notices posted at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,14881,20739,264328],"class_list":["post-735165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment-canada","tag-ottawa","tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735165","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=735165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}