Remnants of Hurricane Beryl Bringing Torrential Rains, Flooding Risk to Southern Ontario, Quebec

A now-downgraded Hurricane Beryl that has claimed the lives of more than 20 people in the Caribbean and the U.S. has arrived in Canada, bringing with it torrential rains and the risk of flooding in parts of Ontario and Quebec. The southern portions of Ontario and Quebec are under a rainfall warning as post-tropical storm Beryl tracks across both provinces July 10 dumping upward of 100 millimetres of rain in some areas. Beryl, once a Level 5 hurricane, has lost much of its power, meaning Canadians don’t need to worry about a hurricane-force storm hitting, the Weather Network says. “It can be easy to think that southern Ontario and Quebec is going to be struck by a hurricane-force storm when we say that the remnants of Beryl will reach the provinces. We can assure you, though, that is not the case,” the Weather Network Forecast Centre said in a statement. “Hurricanes need warm oceanic water to sustain themselves and will deteriorate rapidly when starved of that fuel.”...