The violent thunderstorms that swept part of Quebec on Thursday affected more than 200 sectors, still depriving current of some 33,000 households on Friday, and made many damage in certain sectors of Outaouais and Laurentides.
Most private power households, i.e. 22,262, are located in Outaouais. It is in this region that “it fell the strongest”, specifies Alexandra Landry, meteorologist at Environment Canada. “According to the relationships of the population which have entered, there are damage in sectors like Val-des-Monts, Pontiac, Shawville, featured trees. »»
In the Laurentians, especially in the falling-Saint-Philippe and Neuve and damage sectors, damage has also been reported, “a snapped garage roof, fell, uprooted trees. »»
Photo taken from the Facebook site Xtreme Chase Quebec, Pierre-Marc Doucet
A rather spectacular stormy cell was photographed Thursday near Ferme-Neuve, in the Laurentians.
“Three to four centimeters” of hail would also have fallen into this sector, damaging a few cars, notes the meteorologist. Environment Canada could not yet confirm whether tornadoes appeared on Thursday. This confirmation could take a few days before being established.
Photo taken from the Facebook site Xtreme Chase Quebec
Broken trees near fall-Saint-Philippe, in the Laurentians.
“We are going to do an analysis of the radar data archives that we have for yesterday. When all this information is compiled, if the evidence is strong enough to say that there could have been a tornado potential, we send a team from the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP), to assess the damage and then issue an official report, namely if there has really been a tornado or not. »»
Return during the day
In addition, with regard to electricity failures, 7,518 addresses are located in the Laurentians, 6962 in the Quebec region and 1995 on the island of Montreal, according to a assessment consulted at 8:30 am at the height of the breakdowns, on the night of Thursday to Friday, there were 48,000 households affected.
The scheduled time to restore the current varies enormously depending on the sectors. According to the Info-Pannes service in Hydro-Québec, all subscribers should have found the current during the day.
While the warnings of violent thunderstorms issued by Environment Canada on Wednesday concerned mainly southern Quebec, notably Montreal, Lanaudière and the Laurentides, the Outaouais were added on Thursday and indicated that these storms “can produce tornadoes”. In Montreal, the maximum temperature reached Thursday was 32.4 degrees Celsius, under the record set in 1963, with a 40 -degree wet factor.
Storm alerts were lifted from 3:57 a.m. Friday for southern Quebec.
