{"id":775521,"date":"2026-07-02T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775521\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:30:11","slug":"storm-cleanup-happening-during-expected-peak-of-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775521\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm cleanup happening during expected peak of heat wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ottawa-Gatineau area is cleaning up from massive, powerful thunderstorms that struck the afternoon and evening of Canada Day. <\/p>\n

The damage, including flooding, happened during a long-lasting, punishing heat wave and cancelled Ottawa’s part of national holiday celebrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ottawa’s international airport weather station had reported 99 millimetres of rain in fewer than four hours as of 5:45 p.m. <\/p>\n

A total of 118 millimetres fell by midnight, according to Environment Canada, which is Ottawa’s rainiest July day and one of its rainiest days overall on record.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Wild July 1 weather:\"\"<\/p>\n

Extreme weather, including flooding, wipes out Canada Day activities in Ottawa<\/p>\n

Evening Canada Day activities in Ottawa were cancelled, including the fireworks display, due to “extreme weather,” as heavy rain and thunderstorms caused flooding and power outages. The CBC’s Emma Weller reports.<\/p>\n

About 38,000 local customers didn’t have power as of around 7:30 a.m. Thursday. The hardest-hit areas include Vall\u00e9e-de-la-Gatineau, Tweed, Vanier and Winchester.<\/p>\n

Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said Thursday morning there had been an “extraordinary” number of 311 requests for city service because of the weather and asked people to file reports online if possible.<\/p>\n

\"AStorm damage in Ottawa’s central Vanier community on July 2, 2026. (Mat\u00e9o Garcia-Tremblay\/Radio-Canada)<\/p>\n

There are currently no widespread road closures because of flooding.<\/p>\n

The outages come during a heat warning that’s expected to peak Thursday with humidity making it feel like the 40s in many areas. The dangerously hot weather is expected to last into the weekend in much of eastern Ontario, including Ottawa, Kingston and Cornwall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-775521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775521","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=775521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}