Thousands without power after storms in southern Ontario

Thousands of customers across southern Ontario lost power during thunder storms last night.

Hydro One’s outage map showed nearly 40,000 customers without power as of midnight.

Crews are responding to outages caused by severe thunderstorms and heavy rain affecting over 26,000 customers across the province. Crews are working as quickly and safely as possible to restore power. Visit our map for updates: https://t.co/c7Sy0dxEs2 #ONStorm pic.twitter.com/6WL3t23H1n

— Hydro One (@HydroOne) July 25, 2022

Environment Canada issued severe thunderstorm watches for a large part of Southern Ontario, stretching from Brantford to Ottawa and Cornwall to Prescott.

The storm brought torrential rain, damaging wind gusts and hail.