Province hit by wild weather over long weekend
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The weekend’s humid weather mixed with a cold front pushing east through the province brought widespread thunderstorms and heavy rain throughout southern Manitoba on Canada Day, but that didn’t stop the patriotic revelry at The Forks, the Osborne Street Festival and other celebrations.
Wind whipped up at least one funnel cloud in Winnipeg off Chief Peguis Trail and two water spouts on the south end of Lake Manitoba, near St. Laurent. However, neither the water spouts nor funnel cloud caused any damage, Environment Canada says.
Oak Point, a community almost 100 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg in the RM of St. Laurent, reportedly saw wind speeds of up to 93 km/h on Sunday.
Nickel-sized hail fell on Inwood, about 100 km north of Winnipeg, and Waskada, an unincorporated community 278 kilometres from Winnipeg in the extreme southwest corner of the province, saw quarter-sized hail on Canada’s birthday.
Stonewall got hit with just under 60 millimetres of rain, and Teulon received 27 mm.
Hydro outages affected a few parts of the province, knocking out power for thousands in southern Manitoba.
In western Manitoba, Swan River, a RM about 500 km northwest of Manitoba on the border with Saskatchewan, at least 48 people were still without power Monday morning.
Over 9,000 Hydro customers lost power in part of Winnipeg’s North End, but power was back on by Monday morning.
