Severe Thunderstorm Watch

One of the best lightning displays in years over the city and my camera was not with me. The picture above is from the Montreal Gazette website.

Environment Canada has posted a severe thunderstorm watch for southern Quebec including metro Montreal from early this morning until around 3pm. The threat for strong thunderstorms to develop between the city and the US border is quite high. Radar is showing some storms near the NY and Ontario border region beginning to flare already. We remain in a very warm and humid air mass, but temperatures will cool off and dry out later this evening.

Last nights storms cut power to over 150,000 in Ontario and 60,000 in Quebec. About 8000 remain without power in Montreal this morning. The temperature reached 31.4C in Montreal yesterday (89F). The weekend looks showery and cooler at this time.