{"id":810591,"date":"2026-07-18T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:20:10","slug":"thunderstorm-warning-in-place-for-ottawa-saturday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810591\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm warning in place for Ottawa Saturday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A yellow watch for thunderstorms has been issued by Environment Canada for Ottawa as of 12:37 p.m. on Saturday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p>It says conditions are \u201cfavourable\u201d for thunderstorm conditions which can produce strong wind gusts up to 110 km\/h, quarter-sized hail and heavy rain amounting to 30 to 50 mm. There is also risk of a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms are expected to develop and move across the area this afternoon and into the early evening. Driving conditions may worsen and power outages could occur. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency Management Ontario recommends taking cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa 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=ottawa.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\/05\/1778352312_74_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":"A yellow watch for thunderstorms has been issued by Environment Canada for Ottawa as of 12:37 p.m. on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-810591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810591","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=810591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}