WINNIPEG – An intense but brief thunderstorm woke some Winnipeggers early Wednesday, but many in the northeastern part of the city were unaware of the disorganized system.
Some of the people awoken by loud thunderclaps snapped quick photos or posted on Twitter and Facebook about the experience, with a photo of a tree hit by lightning in River Heights tweeted out. Tom Greaves said he took the photo at a neighbour’s house on Wellington Crescent South.
Kim Goertzen said her husband was looking out their front window when he heard thunder and saw a big flash. She and her daughter woke as their home shook and the house alarm went off, Goertzen said via email. They thought their house had been hit until they saw the burned tree in front of their home.
“Crazy morning wakeup,” she wrote.
There’s a chance of similar activity again late Wednesday, Global News weather specialist Mike Koncan said, with the possibility that parts of the city will be hit by a storm while others will see nothing.
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