Windy grass. (Photo by © Can Stock Photo / Mik122)Windy grass. (Photo by © Can Stock Photo / Mik122)
Sarnia

UPDATE: Wind warning ended for Sarnia-Lambton Monday

Environment Canada's wind warning was lifted at 8:10 a.m. Monday, and a blowing snow advisory ended at mid-afternoon for Sarnia-Lambton.

Brisk westerly winds were diminishing Monday.

Sarnia-Lambton seemed to weather Sunday's storm pretty well.

The highest wind gust recorded Sunday at Chris Hadfield Airport was 80 kilometres per hour at noon.

There were no reports of any major damage around the county.

Bluewater Power responded to an outage in Petrolia during the afternoon which took about 90 minutes to restore but there were no major incidents.

Minor outages were also reported by Hydro One in Lambton County Monday morning.

Across the province, Hydro One had 156,000 customers without power at the peak of the outage.

Environment Canada said the highest wind gust recorded was 128 kilometres per hour at Port Colborne on Lake Erie.

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