{"id":881523,"date":"2026-09-03T04:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881523\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:54:17","slug":"torrential-rain-strong-winds-and-tornado-risk-loom-over-southern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881523\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrential rain, strong winds and tornado risk loom over southern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the Greater Toronto Area and much of southern Ontario as Environment Canada warns of heavy rain, large hail and the risk of a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>The weather office says conditions are favourable for strong thunderstorms to develop this afternoon ahead of an advancing cold front.<\/p>\n<p>The severe orange alert stretches from near Sarnia east to Peterborough and north to Barrie, with areas such as Windsor and parts of cottage country under a yellow watch.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada says hard-hit areas could see torrential downpours, ping pong-sized hail and wind gusts up to 110 kilometres an hour.<\/p>\n<p>It says there is still some uncertainty about the strength of the thunderstorms, but the primary concern is the possibility for damaging winds and torrential rains.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after parts of Ontario were lit up with lightning strikes and inundated by heavy rains by passing storms this morning.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the Greater Toronto Area and much of southern Ontario as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-881523","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\/881523","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=881523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}