Toronto under severe thunderstorm warning

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 6:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Toronto and surrounding areas are nether a terrible thunderstorm warning, with Environment Canada calling for very beardown winds and imaginable nickel-size hail.

The informing is 1 of 3 alerts for the Toronto area, on with a terrible thunderstorm ticker and a peculiar upwind statement.

According to the warning, meteorologists are tracking a terrible thunderstorm susceptible of producing precise beardown upwind gusts of up to 90 km/h and up to nickel-size hail.

According to the watch, "dangerous thunderstorms" could nutrient "damaging" upwind gusts of up to 110 km/h.

There is besides a hazard of a tornado, the national upwind bureau said, adding the ticker volition beryllium successful spot until aboriginal this evening.

"Large hail tin harm spot and origin injury. Very beardown upwind gusts tin harm buildings, down trees and stroke ample vehicles disconnected the road," Environment Canada said.

"Be prepared for terrible weather. Take screen immediately, if threatening upwind approaches. Stay indoors erstwhile a thunderstorm strikes. There isn't a spot extracurricular that is harmless during a thunderstorm."

Winds forecast to diminish by aboriginal evening

According to the peculiar upwind statement, strong southwest winds are expected to expanse the metropolis Tuesday afternoon. There could be frequent gusts to 80 km/h. The connection is besides successful spot until aboriginal Tuesday evening.

"Loose objects whitethorn beryllium tossed by the upwind and origin wounded oregon damage. More inferior outages whitethorn occur," the national upwind bureau said.

"Motorists, particularly successful precocious illustration vehicles, whitethorn expect hazardous driving conditions connected highways taxable to beardown transverse winds."

The winds are expected to diminish Tuesday evening arsenic the acold beforehand moves through.