Severe thunderstorm watch in place for large part of southern Ontario

A big a part of southern Ontario is below a extreme thunderstorm watch, with robust winds, hail and heavy rain doable on Wednesday.

Setting Canada issued a look ahead to areas together with the Larger Toronto-Hamilton Space, Kitchener, Guelph, and the Niagara Area.

“Thunderstorms will develop alongside a chilly entrance that may transfer by means of the province this afternoon,” the climate company stated Wednesday.

It stated wind gusts of as much as 90 km/h are doable with as much as toonie-sized hail.

The northern GTA, by means of Barrie and Cottage Nation, extending east to areas west of Ottawa, are additionally below a extreme thunderstorm watch.

For these areas, the watch reads barely totally different, with 100 km/h wind gusts doable, together with toonie-sized hail and even a threat of a twister.

The menace for these areas lasts by means of the afternoon into the night, Setting Canada stated.

“The principle menace will probably be robust winds and hail,” it stated.

“Nonetheless, a twister will even be doable.”

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