Hydro One working to restore power to parts of northeastern Ontario (2024)

Two large parts of northeastern Ontario are without power, Hydro One said on Sunday.

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About 15,712 customers west of Sudbury have been hit, from parts of Onaping Falls in the north to Manitoulin Island in the south, where almost all of the island is affected.

Communities without power include Killarney, Espanola, Massey, Spanish and Little Current.

Hydro Ontario said the cause of the outage is under investigation but it expects to have the power restored later this afternoon.

In the second outage, an area along Highway 69 from north of Britt to south near Parry Sound has been affected.

Hydro One said 4,056 customers in that area don’t have power.

It said extreme weather conditions are to blame and it isn’t sure when power will be restored.

As for the rest of southern Ontario, Sunday was another wet and rainy day after a record-setting rainfall a day earlier.

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Environment Canada says a heavy rainfall warning is still in effect for a region that includes the Greater Toronto Area, with more than 100 millimetres of precipitation expected in some areas.

Environment Canada says the rain comes after Saturday’s downpour saw 128.3 millimetres fall at Toronto Pearson Airport.

That tops the 2013 record of 126 millimetres recorded at the airport, which is on tap for its rainiest summer ever.

Environment Canada Meteorologist Trudy Kidd said seasonal data isn’t always complete, but available numbers already make the outcome clear.

The previous record for summer rainfall stood at 396.2 millimetres, but Kidd says the airport has already seen 475.7 millimetres this season.

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“It’s fair to say that this has been a record-breaking season,” she said.

The weekend rain in the region is part of a larger storm system that wreaked havoc in southern Ontario on Saturday.

The rain triggered numerous road closures in the Toronto area and stranded several vehicles in deep water, Toronto police said.

Toronto Pearson Airport said airlines are still recovering from Saturday’s storms, flights delayed and terminals bustling with carry-over passengers from the day before. The Greater Toronto Airports Authority is urging anyone with Sunday travel plans to check their flight status before leaving home.

Rain wasn’t the only extreme weather to hit the region. A tornado touched down Saturday morning in the community of Ayr, Ont., about 115 kilometres southwest of Toronto.

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Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project confirmed the twister touched down around 11 a.m., bringing with it winds that reached 165 kilometres an hour.

The project’s executive director, David Sills, says his teams are still assessing the size of the storm.

“We’ve got trees down in every direction possible,” Sills said, but noted “this one was on the weak side.”

Environment Canada’s heavy rainfall warning also stretches as far as the North Bay area.

Up to 25 millimetres of rain is expected in the region through Sunday, with winds gusting up to 60 kilometres an hour throughout the day.

The showers and thunderstorms are forecast to taper off by Monday afternoon and become isolated showers.

As for the Sudbury area, no alerts are in place

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