Active weather pattern

Damage in Trois Rivieres from an F-0 tornado last night. (CBC.ca)

Radar is showing a long stream of rain and embedded thunderstorms this Labor Day evening stretching from the Gulf Coast all the way to the St. Lawrence Valley from what is left of Tropical Storm Lee. The storm has become a depression over Georgia. Lee has been responsible for flash flooding and tornadoes from New England to Louisiana. In southern Quebec the heaviest rain has been south of the St. Lawrence Valley to the US border. I measured about 30mm in the last 24 hours, most of that falling last evening in thunderstorms. The rain should continue this evening in Montreal and points south and east. It has been mild and very humid today as well. Last nights thunderstorms also produced Quebec's 4th tornado of the summer, this one in Trois Rivieres. Extensive damage to about 70 homes along with toppled trees and power lines was reported around 7pm last night. Environment Canada has confirmed that an F-0 storm capable of 130km/h winds struck a small section of the city. Meanwhile the storms were deadly in Ontario with a 26 year old man struck and killed by lightning at a campsite near Plantagenet, 65km east of Ottawa Sunday morning.