Severe thunderstorm warning ends for Toronto, rain possible Wednesday evening
Posted August 17, 2022 2:20 pm.
Last Updated August 17, 2022 3:31 pm.
A severe thunderstorm warning has ended in Toronto after a storm capable of producing heavy rain and dime-sized hail slowly passes through southern Ontario.
Canada’s weather agency said the storm could see roughly 50 mm of rainfall within an hour.
A major thunderstorm happening right now in #NorthYork. We have heavy rain and pea-sized hail. #onstorm pic.twitter.com/UUPaUmVKsP
— Kyle Hocking (@HockCityNews) August 17, 2022
York-Durham, which covers Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Markham, had also been under a severe thunderstorm warning.
The weather warning in Halton-Peel has ended.
RELATED: Toronto, GTA in historic rain drought with “abnormally dry” conditions
Environment Canada issues severe thunderstorm warnings when “imminent or occurring thunderstorms are likely to produce or are producing one or more of the following: large hail, damaging winds, torrential rainfall.”
For Toronto, the same threat of storms continues into Thursday. Mostly sunny and warm conditions will return to the region on Friday.
On Tuesday, CityNews observed recent data showing only 18.2 mm of rain has been documented at Toronto Pearson, with most of it falling on August 4.
Data collected from 1980 to 2010 shows that the average August rainfall at Pearson is 78.1 mm.
The Canadian Drought Monitor (CDM), viewed as Canada’s official source for the monitoring and reporting drought in the country, shows that Toronto and most of the GTA, including Mississauga and Brampton, are graded as Abnormally Dry (D0).
