{"id":818644,"date":"2026-07-22T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818644\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:22:11","slug":"thunderstorms-knock-out-power-to-thousands-across-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818644\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorms knock out power to thousands across Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Quebec residents were still without electricity Wednesday morning after powerful thunderstorms moved across the province overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec said outages reached roughly 46,000 customers Tuesday evening before gradually declining. By 7:30 a.m., nearly 13,000 homes and businesses remained without power, with the Laurentians reporting the largest number of outages at more than 4,200 addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Bas-Saint-Laurent and Lanaudi\u00e8re also continued to see widespread outages, while service had been restored to most affected customers in Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie.<\/p>\n<p>In Saint-Hyacinthe, more than 15,000 customers experienced a power interruption after a transformer substation malfunctioned, requiring emergency repair work.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada had warned of heavy rainfall and strong wind gusts across southern Quebec, conditions that contributed to the scattered outages.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal 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=montreal.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\/1782077411_500_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":"Thousands of Quebec residents were still without electricity Wednesday morning after powerful thunderstorms moved across the province overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-818644","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\/818644","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=818644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}