{"id":744139,"date":"2026-06-18T03:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744139\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:41:09","slug":"heavy-rain-thunderstorm-coming-to-hamilton-niagara-areas-wednesday-night-environment-canada-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744139\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain, thunderstorm coming to Hamilton, Niagara areas Wednesday night, Environment Canada says"},"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>Hamilton, Niagara, Brantford and surrounding areas could get heavy rain and thunderstorms Wednesday night, according to Environment Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The weather agency&#8217;s statement said the regions could get rainfall amounts of up to 40 mm starting early Wednesday evening and continuing overnight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a potential for severe thunderstorms late this evening and overnight with heavy rain and strong wind gusts being the primary threats,&#8221; said Environment Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Region is also under a yellow wind warning, with possible southwesterly winds of up to 90 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The warning said local utility outages and damage to property, trees, or soft shelters is possible.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy winds are also expected in the Hamilton and Brantford area, but the federal agency said warnings may be issued &#8220;closer to the event as the path of this low pressure system becomes more certain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority warned of potential flooding for the southeastern portion of the City of Hamilton, and the eastern portion of Haldimand County due to the forecast weather.<\/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":744140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-744139","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\/744139","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=744139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}