Environment Canada has issued an advisory that funnel clouds are possible today (July 28) in Peterborough and the Kawarthas, including the City and County of Peterborough, the City of Kawartha Lakes, Hastings County, and Northumberland County.
Along with the chance of funnel clouds, thunderstorms may produce wind gusts up to 70 kilometres per hour and pea-sized hail.
These types of funnel clouds are generated by weak rotation under rapidly growing clouds or weak thunderstorms.
This weak rotation is normally not a danger near the ground.
However, there is a chance that this rotation could intensify and become a weak landspout tornado.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.
