F-0 Tornado

F-0 tornado (wind speeds 64 to 116km/h) captured near Orono, Ontario on Tuesday afternoon. (Global News Toronto via Twitter)

It sure was nice for the rain to hold off until the end of the long weekend here in southern Quebec. We had a sunny and hot weekend followed by some heavy rain on Tuesday. There were numerous thunderstorms around yesterday, but most produced heavy rain and little in the way of severe weather. The exception was near Orono, Ontario east of Oshawa where an F-0 tornado was reported around 5:20pm with no damage or injuries. Rainfall was quite heavy in places where the storms did occur yesterday. Around 25mm fell here at my place on L'Ile Perrot with about 23mm at the airport. As much as 50 to even 80mm was reported locally across both Eastern Ontario and western Quebec.

It will be a very mild and humid week with some clouds and fog around this morning, giving way to sunshine and high temperatures near 23C today. Thursday into this upcoming weekend will be warm and a touch on the humid side with some showers and perhaps a thunderstorm by late Friday. High temperatures will be near 28C for highs and the upper teens for lows, well above normal for May.