Thousands of customers are without power Thursday morning after the latest in what’s been a series of strong summer thunderstorms to hit Ottawa-Gatineau.<\/p>\n
Storms rolled through the area most of Wednesday afternoon and evening, with an especially powerful one lashing some areas with rain and wind around 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
About 22 millimetres of rain fell at the Ottawa International Airport weather station on Wednesday, all after 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
That station recorded a wind gust of 107 km\/h at one point, its strongest gust of the year.<\/p>\n
Outage update<\/p>\n
As of 8 a.m. Thursday, about 8,000 customers didn’t have power in both Ottawa and Gatineau.<\/p>\n
The outages are concentrated around the Woodroffe Avenue and Merivale Road areas north of Hunt Club Road in Ottawa, and the Aylmer area of Gatineau.<\/p>\n
There is not a significant number of local Hydro One outages.<\/p>\n
There was another approximately 24 millimetres of rain, much of it during storms, on Monday afternoon and evening at that Ottawa airport.<\/p>\n
July was Ottawa’s rainiest month on record<\/a> at about 282 millimetres, led by the massive July 1 storm that has left many people still shaken<\/a> when heavy rain falls.<\/p>\n WATCH: Canada Day storms slam Ontario with record rain and damaging winds<\/p>\n