As per reports, a powerful windstorm struck Winnipeg, leading to widespread power outages and transformer explosions across the city on Monday (30 September).

• Residents reported bright green flashes and an intense buzzing sensation around 0330 hours (local time) on Monday (30 September), coinciding with the initial surge of wind gusts reaching up to 90 kilometers per hour.
• The Manitoba Hydro reported approximately 7,000 customers affected at the peak of the outages, with ongoing repairs and challenges due to downed power lines and trees.
• A broken limb of a tree lied on Downing Street in Winnipeg’s West End on Tuesday (01 October). In St. Malo, about 55 kilometres south of the city, there are 1,100 affected by outages. And there are several other smaller outages scattered across the province.
• Environment Canada has also issued wind warnings for other parts of the province, where gusts are expected upto 90 kilometres per hour. The area under the warning includes the entire southwest corner of the province, from the western edge of Winnipeg all the way through the Saskatchewan border. The warning stretches up the western shore of Lake Manitoba and into Red Deer Point on Lake Winnipegosis. The warning is anticipated to continue through Tuesday (01 October).