{"id":831571,"date":"2026-07-28T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:51:11","slug":"montreal-weather-theres-a-severe-thunderstorm-watch-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831571\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal weather: There&#8217;s a severe thunderstorm watch in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBees will not swarm before a storm,\u201d says the U.K.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmets.org\/metmatters\/behind-folklore-bees-and-rain-do-bees-know-when-its-going-rain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Royal Meteorological Society<\/a>, and here\u2019s why: They use the sun to navigate, so a cloudy day \u201cwould be the equivalent of somebody smashing up its satnav.\u201d Plus raindrops can damage their delicate wings.<\/p>\n<p>Watching for bees in Montreal\u2019s myriad gardens is a romantic proposition, but you can also look up to guess the forecast, or turn to Environment and Climate Change Canada, which issued a severe thunderstorm watch Tuesday for the Montreal area. <\/p>\n<p>The alert, issued at 10 a.m., warns that \u201cdamage to roofs, fences, branches or soft shelters is possible\u201d and reminds the public that \u201csevere thunderstorm watches are issued when conditions are favourable for the development of thunderstorms capable of producing damaging hail, wind or rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The high will be 28 C, with a humidex of 34 and UV index of 3, or moderate. The overnight low will be 19 C.<\/p>\n<p>Look for more showers on Wednesday, then the sun finally breaking through by Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBees will not swarm before a storm,\u201d says the U.K.\u2019s Royal Meteorological Society, and here\u2019s why: They use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-831571","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\/831571","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=831571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}