{"id":870459,"date":"2026-08-25T03:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870459\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:54:10","slug":"severe-thunderstorms-in-the-forecast-for-northern-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870459\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms in the forecast for northern Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/73d61d4e-9a8e-44e6-b78b-90443ff3fed4.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The La Ronge area is included in an orange severe thunderstorm alert that Environment Canada has issued for northern Saskatchewan. (Image Credit: ID 43414253 \u00a9  Sharplaninac | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By larongeNOW Staff<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 24, 2026 | 5:25 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>All eyes will be on the skies in the La Ronge area, as dangerous thunderstorms could develop this evening.<\/p>\n<p>As of 5 p.m Monday, Environment Canada<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/?zoom=8&amp;center=57.57336314,-104.83691358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> had an orange alert issued <\/a>for an area in northern Saskatchewan that covered Prince Albert National Park to north of La Loche and every community in between east to west. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cConditions are favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that may be capable of producing torrential rain,\u201d the alert read.<\/p>\n<p>Slow moving thunderstorms that started earlier in the day are expected to persist well into the night.  Environment Canada said fast-moving and rapidly rising water can sweep vehicles away and damage infrastructure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The La Ronge area is included in an orange severe thunderstorm alert that Environment Canada has issued for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-870459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870459","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=870459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}