Rainfall warning in effect across northwestern Ont., on federal election day

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 1:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Voters successful northwestern Ontario heading to the polls to ballot successful today's national predetermination whitethorn privation to bring on an umbrella.

Environment Canada issued respective upwind warnings crossed the portion Monday, with 30 to 50 millimetres of rainfall successful the forecast.

Thunder Bay, the northbound enactment and Greenstone areas are nether a rainfall warning. Along with Fort Frances, Dryden, Atikokan, and Ignace areas successful the west.

"A debased unit strategy volition bring dense rainfall and thunderstorms to the area. Localized flooding successful low-lying areas is possible. The frozen crushed has a reduced quality to sorb this rainfall," reads the informing issued by Environment Canada.

The bureau is besides urging radical successful the Thunder Bay areas to support children and pets distant from creeks and stream banks during the storm.

For the Greenstone and Manitouwadge areas, Environment Canada said the rainfall volition alteration to crystal pellets, freezing rainfall and snowfall arsenic the somesthesia falls beneath zero overnight.

Weather leads to outages

Meanwhile, Hydro One is reporting an outage adjacent Kenora, Ont., arsenic of Monday afternoon. The inferior institution says the outage is owed to utmost upwind conditions, and astir 200 customers are affected.

According to the Hydro One outage map, crews are onsite and restoration is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday night.

People successful northwestern Ontario whitethorn beryllium utilized to mediocre upwind conditions on voting days by now.

During the caller Provincial Election successful February, the portion was deed with a monolithic snowstorm connected predetermination night.

At that time, disability advocates successful Ontario warned immoderate radical could look accessibility issues connected predetermination day, owed to  back-to-back storms successful parts of the province.