Ottawa

Ottawa-Gatineau hammered again by strong thunderstorms

Thousands of customers without power, mostly west of those city cores

Thousands of customers are without power Thursday morning after the latest in what's been a series of strong summer thunderstorms to hit Ottawa-Gatineau.

Storms rolled through the area most of Wednesday afternoon and evening, with an especially powerful one lashing some areas with rain and wind around 10:30 p.m.

About 22 millimetres of rain fell at the Ottawa International Airport weather station on Wednesday, all after 10 p.m.

That station recorded a wind gust of 107 km/h at one point, its strongest gust of the year.

As of 8 a.m. Thursday, about 8,000 customers didn't have power in both Ottawa and Gatineau.

The outages are concentrated around the Woodroffe Avenue and Merivale Road areas north of Hunt Club Road in Ottawa, and the Aylmer area of Gatineau.

There is not a significant number of local Hydro One outages.

There was another approximately 24 millimetres of rain, much of it during storms, on Monday afternoon and evening at that Ottawa airport.

July was Ottawa's rainiest month on record at about 282 millimetres, led by the massive July 1 storm that has left many people still shaken when heavy rain falls.