Over 1,000 Manitobans are without power after overnight storms

Over 1,000 Manitoba Hydro customers are without power in Manitoba, after two storms ripped through southern Manitoba overnight.

“Areas affected included St. James, The Maples and Transcona in Winnipeg and Grand Beach,” said Bruce Owen of Manitoba Hydro.

Manitoba Hydro tweeted that they should have power back to customers this afternoon.

It was recorded at the Winnipeg Airport that last nights rainfall was more than September’s entire month of rain.

Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Winnipeg on Wednesday. The watch was later upgraded to a warning, which has now ended.

Environment Canada said two systems rolled through, the first was in the evening at around 8:30 p.m. The most rain was recorded was 46 millimeters in West Kildonan. There was also some reports of nickel and loonie-size hail.

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“With the second one that woke everybody up, it’s pretty loud thunder, intense lighting, and with that we did get some more hail reports… at about 2:30 a.m. that was dime to quarter size,” said Shannon Moodie from Environment Canada.

“The main system has rolled through so now we’re just dealing with some remnant showers behind but … the intense lightning activity is to the east now, we’re expecting that to exit the province this morning,” Moodie said early this morning.

“There is another chance for this afternoon that there could be some more thunderstorms that could develop.”

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Some streets were shown flooding to the hoods of cars.