Environment Canada has ended a number of severe thunderstorm watches and warnings issued earlier for Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.
Environment Canada ended the watches and warnings at around 7 p.m. Wednesday.
CP24 meteorologist Chris Potter said that while the conditions were favourable for the development of severe weather in Toronto, that does not always mean it will arrive.
Things will likely only get better as the night goes on, he added.
“Conditions will improve dramatically tonight,” Potter said. “Cooler, drier, more comfortable and stable conditions are expected by late this evening.”
As of 11 p.m., 350 Toronto Hydro customers were still without power after a severe storm Monday that flooded local streets and highways with more than 125 millimetres of rain and crippled the city’s public transit system.
Trillium Hospital in Mississauga reported difficulties with their electricity. A spokesperson told CP24 the hospital is using backup generators and redirecting ambulances to other hospitals but remains open to the public.
Hydro crews are on site working to repair the problem, according to Enersource, the hospital’s power supply company.
At one point, 300,000 customers in Toronto and 70 per cent of Mississauga were without power.
Power was temporarily shut off to about 30,000 customers in the city’s west end Tuesday afternoon after Toronto Hydro asked city residents to reduce their electricity use in the wake of floodwaters submerging a power station and putting the system at the brink of failure.
The rolling outages were subsequently halted at around midnight, however officials warned Wednesday morning the blackouts may again be necessary today should usage spike.
“Overnight we were able to do some switching and transferring of loads to eliminate rolling blackouts for today, but that could change,” Hydro One CEO Carm Marcello told CP24 Wednesday afternoon. “If people conserve, if we don’t have a storm we are in a good spot, but If we have lightning, or if it gets a lot hotter and people crank up their air conditioners we will have to use one of the tools in our tool kit and that’s rotating load shedding. ”
GO Transit and TTC service largely restored
Monday’s storm caused chaos for commuters, as both the TTC and GO Transit suspended service on a number of lines.
The headaches then continued through the day Tuesday as crews worked to repair the damage left by floodwaters to tracks and other infrastructure.
As of Wednesday morning, everything was primarily back to normal as GO Transit restored service on its Richmond Hill and Lakeshore West lines and the TTC restored service on the Bloor-Danforth line.
There was no service between Islington and Kipling stations on the Bloor-Danforth line Wednesday morning, but it was fully restored by the early afternoon.
TTC CEO Andy Byford told CP24 on Wednesday morning that he hoped to have service fully restored by the end of the day.
"We have pumped all the water out (of Kipling Station) and we are doing the final electrical and signal testing," Byford said.
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