Power outages persist for thousands in Quebec, Hydro crews work to restore service
Posted January 28, 2025 9:00 am.
Last Updated January 28, 2025 3:24 pm.
Strong winds and snow squalls that hit Quebec on Monday left over 110,000 homes without power at the height of the outages, but by Tuesday morning, that number had dropped significantly.
As of 6 a.m., approximately 8,700 households were still without electricity, with crews continuing to work through adverse weather conditions to restore service.
The majority of the ongoing outages were concentrated in the Montérégie, Centre-du-Québec, Lanaudière, and the Laurentians. Montérégie saw around 2,600 homes still without power, while Centre-du-Québec reported 2,337 homes affected. In Lanaudière and the Laurentians, 1,530 and 1,420 households, respectively, remained in the dark.
By 3:15 p.m., there were still about 2,400 customers in the dark province-wide.
Hydro-Québec teams were out in full force early Tuesday morning, 500 crews were on the ground – despite colder, windier conditions, working to reconnect the grid and bring power back to the affected homes.
The outages were triggered by strong winds reaching speeds of up to 100 km/h.
In Anjou, the wind ripped some Tempos from their anchors.
For real-time updates head to Hydro-Québec’s outages map available here.
It felt like minus-24 Celsius by noon in Montreal. Overnight, the city was forecasted to receive periods of snow — about two centimetres worth.
The wind chill could push temperatures to minus-23 on Wednesday with another five centimetres of snow expected.
More flurries are possible Thursday, then cloudy Friday and sunshine returning Saturday. There’s another chance of snow Sunday.
