{"id":207093,"date":"2025-12-29T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:36:07","slug":"high-winds-and-freezing-rain-leave-thousands-without-power-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207093\/","title":{"rendered":"High winds and freezing rain leave thousands without power in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of residents across Montreal and surrounding regions were without electricity Monday morning as freezing rain and powerful winds moved through southern Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada says a prolonged period of freezing rain and ice pellets will continue through the end of the day, with\u00a05 to 15 millimetres of ice accretion\u00a0expected in the Montreal area. Temperatures are hovering near\u00a0plus 1 C, though wind chills made it feel closer to\u00a0minus \u2013 13 C\u00a0early in the day. Freezing rain is expected to transition to snow mixed with rain later this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Power outages were already widespread as of\u00a08:19 a.m.\u00a0In Montreal,\u00a02,357 customers\u00a0were without electricity. The Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie reported\u00a03,793 outages, while\u00a045 customers\u00a0were affected in the Laurentians. Across Quebec, approximately\u00a08,140 addresses\u00a0were without power.<\/p>\n<p>Winds are expected to intensify later today, shifting to the southwest and reaching\u00a060 km\/h with gusts up to 90 km\/h\u00a0in Montreal, raising concerns that outage numbers could continue to climb as conditions worsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of residents across Montreal and surrounding regions were without electricity Monday morning as freezing rain and powerful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-207093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}