Hydro One working to restore power to parts of northeastern Ontario

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Two giant components of northeastern Ontario are with out energy, Hydro One stated on Sunday.

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About 15,712 prospects west of Sudbury have been hit, from components of Onaping Falls within the north to Manitoulin Island within the south, the place virtually all the island is affected.

Communities with out energy embrace Killarney, Espanola, Massey, Spanish and Little Present.

Hydro Ontario stated the reason for the outage is beneath investigation however it expects to have the ability restored later this afternoon.

Within the second outage, an space alongside Freeway 69 from north of Britt to south close to Parry Sound has been affected.

Hydro One stated 4,056 prospects in that space don’t have energy.

It stated excessive climate situations are responsible and it isn’t positive when energy will probably be restored.

As for the remainder of southern Ontario, Sunday was one other moist and wet day after a record-setting rainfall a day earlier.

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Atmosphere Canada says a heavy rainfall warning continues to be in impact for a area that features the Larger Toronto Space, with greater than 100 millimetres of precipitation anticipated in some areas.

Atmosphere Canada says the rain comes after Saturday’s downpour noticed 128.3 millimetres fall at Toronto Pearson Airport.

That tops the 2013 document of 126 millimetres recorded on the airport, which is on faucet for its rainiest summer time ever.

Atmosphere Canada Meteorologist Trudy Kidd stated seasonal knowledge isn’t all the time full, however obtainable numbers already make the result clear.

The earlier document for summer time rainfall stood at 396.2 millimetres, however Kidd says the airport has already seen 475.7 millimetres this season.

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“It’s honest to say that this has been a record-breaking season,” she stated.

The weekend rain within the area is a component of a bigger storm system that wreaked havoc in southern Ontario on Saturday.

The rain triggered quite a few street closures within the Toronto space and stranded a number of autos in deep water, Toronto police stated.

Toronto Pearson Airport stated airways are nonetheless recovering from Saturday’s storms, flights delayed and terminals bustling with carry-over passengers from the day earlier than. The Larger Toronto Airports Authority is urging anybody with Sunday journey plans to test their flight standing earlier than leaving dwelling.

Rain wasn’t the one excessive climate to hit the area. A twister touched down Saturday morning locally of Ayr, Ont., about 115 kilometres southwest of Toronto.

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Western College’s Northern Tornadoes Venture confirmed the tornado touched down round 11 a.m., bringing with it winds that reached 165 kilometres an hour.

The mission’s government director, David Sills, says his groups are nonetheless assessing the dimensions of the storm.

“We’ve obtained timber down in each path potential,” Sills stated, however famous “this one was on the weak aspect.”

Atmosphere Canada’s heavy rainfall warning additionally stretches so far as the North Bay space.

As much as 25 millimetres of rain is anticipated within the area by Sunday, with winds gusting as much as 60 kilometres an hour all through the day.

The showers and thunderstorms are forecast to taper off by Monday afternoon and change into remoted showers.

As for the Sudbury space, no alerts are in place

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