{"id":788992,"date":"2026-07-08T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788992\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:39:14","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-watch-issued-for-calgary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788992\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary is under a severe thunderstorm watch on Wednesday with Environment Canada warning conditions are primed for dangerous weather later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The weather agency says thunderstorms are likely to develop this afternoon and early this evening, with the potential for strong wind gusts, large hail, heavy rain, and lightning. <\/p>\n<p>Calgarians are encouraged to stay on alert for changing weather conditions throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>People are urged to head indoors if they hear thunder or see a threatening storm approaching.<\/p>\n<p>A severe thunderstorm watch means the atmosphere has the right ingredients to produce storms. A warning would mean a severe storm is already in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Tune into <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CityNews 24\/7 <\/a>for the latest in breaking news, traffic, and weather<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782746833_947_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary is under a severe thunderstorm watch on Wednesday with Environment Canada warning conditions are primed for dangerous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-788992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788992","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=788992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}