{"id":778099,"date":"2026-07-03T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:53:09","slug":"canada-weather-forecast-power-outages-heat-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778099\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada weather forecast: Power outages, heat warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your Morning meteorologist Michelle Jobin has an update on heat warnings and thunderstorms across parts of the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONTREAL \u2014 Roughly 55,000 clients are without power in Ontario and Quebec after severe thunderstorms on Thursday swept across Central Canada, which was already dealing with sweltering temperatures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Environment Canada says that at the peak of the outages more than 214,000 customers were knocked off the grid in Ontario and nearly 140,000 customers were without power in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hydro One, Ontario\u2019s power utility, says crews are working \u201cas safely and quickly as possible\u201d to fix service to about 25,000 customers after several rounds of thunderstorms since Canada Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While in Quebec, Audrey St-Pierre, spokesperson for Quebec\u2019s hydro utility, says about 200 teams of workers have been dispatched to restore service to about 30,000 clients. St-Pierre says Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec expects power to be restored to most areas by 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lanaudi\u00e8re region, north of Montreal, is the most affected with about 15,000 customers still without power.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/KIDYRCPCELSD7BIFGIG3KWXIFE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"522\"\/>Quebec Hydro workers conduct maintenance on a residential hydro line in Montreal on Monday, May 4, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christinne Muschi Quebec Hydro workers conduct maintenance on a residential hydro line in Montreal on Monday, May 4, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christinne Muschi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Environment Canada says strong winds accompanying the thunderstorms uprooted many trees across Ontario and southern Quebec, knocking down power lines. The Montr\u00e9al-Trudeau International Airport recorded wind gusts of 96 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thursday\u2019s storms were accompanied by record-setting temperatures in Ontario. Oshawa\u2019s airport recorded a high of 35.2 C, beating a record set in 1931 of 33.9 C. Toronto Pearson Airport saw 36 C with a peak humidex value near 48, another record for July 1, the weather agency said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Parts of southern Quebec including Montreal have been under heat warnings since earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Montreal, Friday\u2019s high is expected to hit 32 C with a humidex value of 39. Temperatures are expected to cool slightly for the weekend and reach 28 C on Saturday and Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Charlotte Glorieux, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your Morning meteorologist Michelle Jobin has an update on heat warnings and thunderstorms across parts of the country.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,49,48,295,47,44,1133],"class_list":["post-778099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-national","tag-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778099","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=778099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}