{"id":741689,"date":"2026-06-17T01:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/741689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:09:19","slug":"environment-climate-change-canada-issues-severe-thunderstorm-watch-for-southeastern-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/741689\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment &#038; Climate Change Canada issues Severe Thunderstorm Watch for southeastern Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/91deee34-eabe-4394-97fa-f0845b134a57-1.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Environment &amp; Climate Change Canada)<\/p>\n<p>By Dave Lueneberg<\/p>\n<p>Potential for strong wind gusts, large hail, and heavy rain<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 16, 2026 | 10:54 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Environment &amp; Climate Change Canada has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for a large section of eastern and central Alberta,\u00a0including Lethbridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It warns that conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The storms, the weather agency adds, are capable of producing strong wind gusts, large hail, and heavy rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The watch covers an area from the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary west to Fort Macleod and north from the U-S border through Calgary and into the Red Deer region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Environment &amp; Climate Change Canada) By Dave Lueneberg Potential for strong wind gusts, large hail, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-741689","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\/741689","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=741689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}