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Heavy rainfall possible in Windsor-Essex, Chatham-Kent Wednesday
A motorist drives through standing water in Montreal. (Graham Hughes/ The Canadian Press) Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent, noting the possibility of thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. The statement will continue into the evening with rain amounts potentially surpassing 50 millimetres in some areas. Drivers are reminded that heavy rain can cause flash floods and water pooling on the roads and low-lying areas. Here's a look at the rest of your forecast: Wednesday: Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers and a risk of thunderstorms. Hazy early in the afternoon. High 31 C, humidex 41 C. Wednesday night: Mainly cloudy. 60 per cent chance of showers early in the evening. 40 per cent chance of showers before morning. Risk of thunderstorms, low 24 C. Thursday: Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers and a risk of thunderstorms. Wind west 50 km/h. High 27 C, humidex 35 C. Friday: Sunny. High 24 C. Friday night: Clear. Low 14 C.
CTV News
11 hours ago
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How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar
Al Ain's Park Yong-woo splashes his face to cool off during the Club World Cup Group G soccer match between Wydad AC and Al Ain FC in Washington, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) GENEVA — Soccer had a fierce reckoning with heat at the recently concluded FIFA Club World Cup in the United States — a sweltering preview of what players and fans may face when the U.S. co-hosts the World Cup with Mexico and Canada next summer. With temperatures rising worldwide, scientists warn that staging the World Cup and other soccer tournaments in the Northern Hemisphere summer is getting increasingly dangerous for both players and spectators. Some suggest that FIFA may have to consider adjusting the soccer calendar to reduce the risk of heat-related illnesses. 'The deeper we go in the decade, the greater the risk without considering more dramatic measures, such as playing in the winter months and/or cooler latitudes,' said Prof. Piers Forster, director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures in Leeds, England. 'I'm getting increasingly worried that we are only one heatwave away from a sporting tragedy and I would like to see governing bodies lean into the climate and health science.' Tournament soccer in June and July is a tradition going back to the first World Cup in 1930. Since then, the three-month period of June, July and August globally has warmed by 1.05 degrees Celsius (1.89 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Meanwhile, European summer temperatures have increased by 1.81 degrees C. The rate of warming has accelerated since the 1990's. Climate scientists say that's a factor that needs to be considered when playing high-intensity outdoor sports like soccer. 'If you want to play football for 10 hours a day, they'll have to be the hours of the early morning and late evening,' climatologist Friederike Otto from Imperial College, London, told The Associated Press in an email, 'if you don't want to have players and fans die from heatstroke or get severely ill with heat exhaustion.' FIFA adapts Extreme heat and thunderstorms made an impact on FIFA's newly expanded tournament for club teams. The Club World Cup was held in 11 American cities from June 14 to July 13. FIFA adapted by tweaking its extreme heat protocol to include extra breaks in play, more field-side water, and cooling the team benches with air fans and more shade. Still, Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández said the heat made him dizzy and urged FIFA to avoid afternoon kickoffs at the World Cup next year. The global soccer players union, FIFPRO, has warned that six of the 16 World Cup cities next year are at 'extremely high risk' for heat stress. FIFA president Gianni Infantino addressed the heat concerns on Saturday, saying the handful of World Cup stadiums that are covered would be used for day-time games next year. Extreme heat could become an even bigger challenge at the following World Cup in 2030, which will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Games are scheduled to be played in afternoons and early evenings from mid-June to mid-July. All three countries have already seen temperatures rise above 40 degrees C (well above 100 Fahrenheit) this summer. FIFA downplayed the heat risk in its in-house evaluation of the 2030 World Cup bid, saying 'weather conditions are difficult to predict with the current development in global and local climate, but are unlikely to affect the health of players or other participants.' Heat exhaustion The physical effects of playing 90 minutes of soccer in direct sunshine during the hottest part of the day can be severe and potentially result in hyperthermia – abnormally high body temperatures. 'When players experience hyperthermia, they also experience an increase in cardiovascular strain,' said Julien Périard of the University of Canberra. 'If core temperature increases excessively, exertional heat illness can occur,' leading to muscle cramping, heat exhaustion, and even life-threatening heat stroke, he said. Many sports events held in the summer adjust their start times to early morning or late night to minimize the risk heat-related illness, including marathons at the Olympics or track world championships. Morning kickoffs, however, are rare in soccer, where World Cup match schedules are often set with European TV audiences in mind. It would be hard for FIFA to avoid day-time World Cup kickoffs given the packed match schedule as the number of participating teams increases from 32 to 48 in 2026. Calendar rethink Heat mainly becomes an issue when the World Cup is held in the Northern Hemisphere, because June and July are winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. FIFA has stuck to its traditional June-July schedule for the men's World Cup except in 2022 when it moved the tournament to November-December to avoid the summer heat in Qatar. Something similar is expected when neighboring Saudi Arabia hosts the tournament in 2034. However, moving the World Cup to another part of the year is complicated because it means Europe's powerful soccer leagues must interrupt their season, affecting both domestic leagues and the Champions League. FIFA didn't respond to questions from AP about whether alternate dates for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups were being considered. When and where to schedule the World Cup and other outdoor sports events is likely to become more pressing as the world continues to warm. Athletes and even everyday people doing basic physical activities are now exposed to 28% more of moderate or higher heat risk in 2023 than they were in the 1990s, said Ollie Jay, a professor at the University of Sydney who has helped shape policy for the Australian Open in tennis. 'This is symbolic of something bigger,' said Michael Mann, a University of Pennsylvania climate scientist. 'Not just the danger and inconvenience to fans and players, but the fundamentally disruptive nature of climate change when it comes our current way of life.' ___ Graham Dunbar and Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press Borenstein contributed from Washington, D.C.
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2 dead in New Jersey after heavy rain, flash floods hit U.S. northeast
Social Sharing Two people in New Jersey were killed after their vehicle was swept up in flood waters during a storm that moved across the U.S. Northeast overnight, authorities said Tuesday. Gov. Phil Murphy noted the deaths occurred in the northern New Jersey city of Plainfield, where there were two other storm-related deaths on July 3. A third person was killed in nearby North Plainfield in that previous storm. "We're not unique, but we're in one of these sort of high-humidity, high-temperature, high-storm-intensity patterns right now," Murphy told reporters after touring storm damage in Berkeley Heights. "Everybody needs to stay alert." The names of the two latest victims were not immediately released Tuesday. Local officials said the vehicle in which they were riding was swept into a brook during the height of the storm. "Emergency personnel responded quickly, but tragically, both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene," says a statement the city posted online. New York City Subway flooded The heavy rains also caused flash floods in New York and south-central Pennsylvania on Monday night into early Tuesday, prompting road closures and snarling some service on New York City's subway. At one stop in Manhattan, viral videos posted online showed water flooding down into a Manhattan subway station, submerging the platform while passengers inside a train watch. Another photo appears to show people standing on a train's seats to avoid the water beginning to soak the floor. Janno Lieber, chair and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), told ABC 7 in New York the city's sewer system got overwhelmed by the rain and backed up into the subway tunnels and to the stations. In several cases, he said, the backup "popped a manhole," creating the dramatic "geyser" seen in some videos. WATCH | Water pours into New York subway: Water gushes into a New York subway station amid floods, heavy rainfall 22 minutes ago Heavy rainfall caused severe flooding over New York and New Jersey on Monday night. New York City's transit authority said its subway's service was experiencing significant delays, as videos captured floodwater gushing into a station and onto the platform. "What happened last night is something that is, you know, a reality in our system," he told the TV station, noting the backup happens when more than 4.5 centimetres of rain falls in an hour. "We've been working with the city of New York to try to get them to increase the capacity of the system at these key locations." Lieber said there is now full subway service, as well as full Long Island Railroad and Metro North commuter rail service after hundreds of people worked overnight to restore operations. Flooding has proven to be a stubborn problem for New York's subway system, despite years and billions of dollars' worth of efforts to waterproof them. Superstorm Sandy in 2012 prompted years of subway repairs and flood-fighting ideas, and some have been put into practice. In some places, transit officials have installed or are installing storm barriers at subway station entrances, seals beneath subway air vents and curbs to raise the vents and entrances above sidewalk level. Meanwhile, summer thunderstorms and the remains of hurricanes have repeatedly flooded parts of the subway system anew. In 2021, the remnants of Hurricane Ida killed more than a dozen New York City residents, largely in basement apartments, and sent water cascading again into subways, renewing attention to resiliency proposals. This latest storm prompted multiple water rescues in Lancaster County, Pa., where streets and basements flooded after roughly 18 centimetres of rain fell. Some roads remained closed in parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Tuesday. Murphy said the pavement buckled in some locations and state and local officials were assessing the level of damage in several counties, noting the White House had reached out to his office. A major east-to-west highway in New Jersey was closed to make emergency repairs while dozens of flights were delayed or cancelled at area airports Tuesday, including at least 173 total cancellations at Newark Liberty Airport, according to FlightAware data. Most flash flood watches and warnings had expired in parts of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania as the rain moved on. Overwhelmed sewers New York City officials said their venerable sewer system worked as well as it could, but simply was not built to handle rain that fell at the second-highest rate ever recorded in Central Park, surpassed only by the remnants of 2021's Hurricane Ida. "Imagine putting a two-litre bottle of water into a one-litre bottle. Some of it's going to spill," environmental protection commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said at a virtual news briefing Tuesday. The city doesn't run the subway system — it's under the separate MTA — but Aggarwala said the two entities have been collaborating to clean sewers near 45 flood-prone subway stations. The city also has sketched out plans to upgrade sewers to handle more water, estimating it would take $30 billion US to do so in about 80 areas that need it most. The city currently spends about $1 billion US a year on stormwater management.
