Update: Environment Canada cancels thunderstorm watch for Montreal

Environment Canada has cancelled a severe thunderstorm watch for the Montreal region Thursday around 5:45 p.m.
Initially issued in the early afternoon, the alert had been downgraded from a severe thunderstorm warning to a severe thunderstorm watch for Montreal by 3 p.m.
The agency had warned that intense lightning, heavy rain and large gusts of winds were possible in such storms.
Tornadoes were also a possibility, Environment Canada said.
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