Thunderstorm causes outages
This morning’s storm caused several outages in the metropolitan area and the Hydro-Quebec map still shows quite a few orange dots.
I was shaken awake by an almighty thunderclap sometime after 5. Feels like we waited a long time for a good raging thunderstorm this summer – Environment Canada kept teasing us with “risk of thunderstorm” and then nothing.
Daniel D 07:25 on 2021-08-31 Permalink
Same here. Got jolted awake by some very local thunderclaps.
It’s interesting to power up https://www.lightningmaps.org in real time during a storm and see how close those strikes really were.
GC 12:55 on 2021-08-31 Permalink
There was some memorable thunder and lightning around 5 AM.
It definitely seems like we’ve been warned about a lot of storms that never really happened this summer. Or they were highly localized. Someone in St-Henri would tell me about thunderstorm conditions where they live, but in the Plateau I’d only see a drizzle.