Environment Canada has lifted its severe thunderstorm watch for Toronto, but some areas of the city are without power after Tuesday evening’s storms.
Posted Sep 08, 2021, 06:20AM EDT
Environment Canada has lifted its severe thunderstorm watch for Toronto, but some areas of the city are without power after Tuesday evening’s storms.
Toronto Hydro said it is responding to two major outages on Wednesday morning, one in Leslieville and the other in Leaside.
The Leslieville outage is affecting upwards of 5,000 homes and businesses in the area bounded by Gerrard Street East south to Queen Street East, and Leslie Street east to Woodbine Avenue.
Up to 1,000 homes and businesses in Leaside are in the dark, in an area bounded by Broadway Avenue south to Millwood Road and Bayview Avenue and east to Laird Drive.
Toronto and the GTA were under a severe thunderstorm warning, which was then downgraded to a severe thunderstorm watch late Tuesday evening. The watch was lifted just after 4 a.m. Wednesday.
Tuesday evening saw a series of storms move through the province, which saw hail, high winds, downpours, thunder and lightning. There were even unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in some parts of Southwestern Ontario.
Wednesday will see some rainstorms in Toronto, but they won’t be as severe in nature says CityNews weather specialist Natasha Ramsahai.
Here are some images from the storm system which came through southwestern Ontario earlier in the evening:
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