Thunderstorm with 90 km/h winds moving toward Hamilton and Burlington, Environment Canada says

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Hamilton and Burlington may be in for a thunderstorm with 90 km/h winds, according to a warning from Environment Canada.

Hamilton, Burlington and much of Halton, and Kitchener-Waterloo are affected.

A city street during a downpour.
Rain pours down on James Street North in Hamilton on July 16, 2024. The city is under a severe thunderstorm watch. (Justin Chandler/CBC)

Hamilton and Burlington may be in for a thunderstorm with 90 km/h winds, according to a warning from Environment Canada.

Around 8:15 a.m., the federal agency published an alert saying meteorologists are tracking a line of thunderstorms moving from Onondaga to Kitchener — moving northeast. 

The warning area is from Waterloo in the west to Lake Ontario in the east. It extends north to Halton and south to Brantford. There are other active storm warnings in southern Ontario, including a thunderstorm watch affecting Brantford and Six Nations, and one impacting much of the Greater Toronto Area. London and Sarnia are under a severe thunder storm watch too. 

“Severe thunderstorm warnings are issued when imminent or occurring thunderstorms are likely to produce or are producing one or more of the following: large hail, damaging winds, torrential rainfall,” Environment Canada says.

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Justin Chandler is a CBC News reporter in Hamilton. He covers all sorts of stories but has a special interest in how public policy affects people. Justin covered current affairs in Hamilton and Niagara for TVO, and has worked on a variety of CBC teams and programs, including As It Happens, Day 6 and CBC Music. He co-hosted Radio Free Krypton on Met Radio. You can email story ideas to justin.chandler(at)cbc(dot)ca.

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