Severe thunderstorm hits the GTA, more rain expected overnight
Posted April 27, 2011 7:27 pm.
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TORONTO, Ont. – It turned into a wild and whacky weather ride in southern Ontario, Wednesday, after Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for most regions, including Toronto.
Regions to the east of the GTA also dealt with severe weather watches.
Two rounds of severe storms were expected to hit the area as a storm moved in from Ohio.
Scattered storms swept through some southwestern parts of the province earlier in the day, causing falling trees and traffic issues. Bands of rain moved through the Kitchener-Waterloo region at around 3 p.m. with wind gusts reaching 107 kilometres per hour. There were also reports of tornado sightings through the region.
People in eastern Ontario also experienced isolated storms.
Environment Canada said damaging wind gusts could reach 110 km per hour and some regions north of Ottawa were under a tornado watch.
“All of southern Ontario has the right ingredients for a tornado. In other words, the winds at the surface are going at a different direction than the winds higher up in the atmosphere,” said CityNews meteorologist Natasha Ramsahai.
Between 10-20 mm of rain is expected through the night and overnight as a cooling trend starts to make its way into the GTA.
Environment Canada said the low pressure system from the U.S. has been tracking slowly toward the Great Lakes regions over the past 24 hours.
Rain and wet snow fell throughout southern parts of the province Tuesday afternoon and moved up to northern areas by the evening.
680News meteorologist Jill Taylor indicates that this is not the end of the showers and thunderstorms.
“We could get some more showers Thursday,” she said.
