{"id":777746,"date":"2026-07-03T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:01:15","slug":"thousands-without-power-after-thunderstorms-roll-through-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777746\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands without power after thunderstorms roll through Quebec"},"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 2 minutes<\/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>Severe thunderstorms that swept across Quebec on Thursday evening resulted in tens of thousands of power outages. <\/p>\n<p>At the peak of the outages, more than 130,000 Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec customers were in the dark after violent storms rolled through much of the province. <\/p>\n<p>The situation is gradually improving this morning, with roughly 50,000 without power.<\/p>\n<p>The Lanaudi\u00e8re and Laurentians regions were the hardest hit. Together, they accounted for about 60 per cent of all households without power on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal, Laval, and the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie also experienced several thousand outages. Of those three regions, Laval was the most affected on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds gusting to more than 90 km\/h caused damage, notably in L&#8217;Assomption, in the Lanaudi\u00e8re region, where a large event tent was blown into the air.<\/p>\n<p>On its website, Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec said &#8220;crews are making every effort to restore service safely and as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec is asking the public not to touch or approach downed lines, which may still be live.<\/p>\n<p>In southern Quebec, the temperature is expected to top 30 C again on Friday, feeling like more than 40 with the humidex. <\/p>\n<p>According to Environment Canada, temperatures and humidity will begin to drop on Saturday morning.<\/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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-777746","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\/777746","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=777746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}