Flooding snarls traffic in parts of the GTA after heavy rain overnight

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 03, 2025 6:06 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

The City of Toronto and exigency services successful the Greater Toronto Area are informing of flooding and roadworthy closures connected Thursday aft dense rainfall deed portion of southwestern Ontario.

Steeles Avenue East at Silver Star Boulevard successful Scarborough is presently closed owed to flooding, according to the City of Toronto. 

All lanes astatine the northbound ramp connected Highway 427 astatine Rexdale Boulevard and Derry Road successful Toronto are closed, the Ministry of Transportation said successful a station connected X Thursday.

Torbram Road from Rena Road to Highway 407 successful Mississauga, and Intermodal Drive westbound of Goreway Drive successful Brampton are besides some closed owed to flooding, Peel constabulary said connected Thursday. 

Brampton Fire said determination is simply a "large exigency response" adjacent Kennedy Road and Steeles Avenue East owed to localized flooding. 

"Water rescue squad deployed with a palmy and harmless diligent removal," Brampton Fire said successful a station connected X connected Thursday morning. 

Environment Canada has lifted a rainfall informing for Toronto connected Thursday greeting aft dense rainfall fell overnight. 

The national upwind bureau had said the metropolis could spot betwixt 30 and 50 millimetres of rainfall and up to 75 millimetres successful immoderate areas if thunderstorms deed those areas repeatedly.

"The ground, already adjacent saturation, has small quality to sorb further rainfall," Environment Canada said successful the warning.

It warned that flooding was imaginable successful low-lying areas and determination could beryllium lasting h2o connected roads due to the fact that of the dense downpour.

The informing followed a messy premix of precipitation, including crystal pellets, that deed the metropolis during the time Wednesday.

A freezing rainfall informing and peculiar upwind connection for the metropolis lifted connected Wednesday. Some surrounding areas, including Newmarket, Georgina and bluish York Region, Barrie, Collingwood and Hillsdale, Uxbridge and Beaverton, were inactive nether freezing rainfall warnings connected Wednesday night, but those person since been lifted.

Environment Canada had earlier issued some freezing rainfall warnings and rainfall warnings for overmuch of the GTA.

Additional powerfulness outages happened Wednesday

The wintry upwind is the 2nd outpouring tempest to the portion successful little than a week.

Power inferior Hydro One says crews person been moving astir the timepiece since the past tempest blew done implicit the weekend, knocking retired powerfulness to hundreds of thousands of homes crossed confederate and eastbound Ontario.

With astir 192,000 customers inactive successful the dark, determination is interest that the latest storm's accompanying winds could trigger adjacent much powerfulness outages.

In a connection Wednesday afternoon, Hydro One said crews are already seeing scattered outages successful southwest Ontario arsenic a effect of precocious winds.

"Crews are retired successful afloat unit moving alongside our contractors and squad members from 18 different Ontario utilities," the connection reads. Hydro 1 said they expect much assistance connected that beforehand successful the coming days.