{"id":777655,"date":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777655\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","slug":"montreal-blasted-with-more-scorching-temperatures-as-heat-wave-enters-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777655\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal blasted with more scorching temperatures as heat wave enters Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50,000 Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec clients are without power as the province\u2019s heat wave enters its third day. <\/p>\n<p>The utility says multiple regions of Quebec are still without power due to the thunderstorms that accompanied scorching temperatures throughout the province. Fewer than 2,500 of the outages were on Montreal Island Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has issued a moderate heat warning for Montreal, with temperatures forecast to reach a high of 32 C on Friday. The weather agency is anticipating a humidex of 39 and a \u201cvery high\u201d UV index of 9, warning there is risk of thunderstorms late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the high number of outages and the extent of the damage observed in certain areas, service restoration will take longer than one night for some affected customers,\u201d Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec wrote on its outage tracker.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to ease slightly by Saturday morning, with a forecast high of 28 C.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 50,000 Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec clients are without power as the province\u2019s heat wave enters its third day. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-777655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777655","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=777655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}