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Anybody with the misfortune of being outside Tuesday afternoon in Montreal and surrounding areas was in for fairly a bathe.

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A sequence of movies posted on-line present Montreal streets and métro stations flooding and pipes and sewers gushing copious quantities of water into the air as a heavy rainfall hit the town.

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A rainfall warning issued by Atmosphere Canada for the Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and Châteauguay areas mentioned 50 to 75 millimetres are anticipated by Wednesday morning. The company additionally mentioned there’s a threat of thunderstorms through the night for the Montreal space.

Simply after 5:30 p.m., Québec 511 introduced Freeway 15 North starting at Henri-Bourassa Blvd. was closed till additional discover attributable to water accumulation.