{"id":329800,"date":"2026-03-09T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/329800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:19:09","slug":"record-breaking-warm-temperatures-heavy-rainfall-in-parts-of-ontario-cause-road-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/329800\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking warm temperatures, heavy rainfall in parts of Ontario cause road issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Record-breaking warm temperatures in parts of Ontario over the weekend, along with rain, have caused problems on some of the province&#8217;s road network, Environment Canada says.<\/p>\n<p>A weather summary from the agency says the temperature at the Toronto airport reached a high of 17.6 C on Saturday, breaking an old record for March 7 of 17.2 C that was set in 1860.<\/p>\n<p>It says a weather station in the St. Catharines area recorded a high temperature on Saturday of 20.3 degrees, while further north in Wiarton, more than 40 millimetres of rain was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>A low-pressure system tracked over Ontario on Saturday, bringing snow and rain to northeastern sections of the province and rain, fog and mild temperatures to southern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>It led to significant snow melt and reports of ponding on roads in several areas, and Environment Canada says sections of Bruce Road 7 were reported to have been washed out.<\/p>\n<p>The weather agency says dense fog also led to accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-329800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}