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A severe thunderstorm watch for the Ottawa area has ended.

Environment Canada issued the watch at 11 a.m., saying that conditions were favourable for the severe storm later Tuesday afternoon including the possibility of hail and wind gust of up to 90 km/h.

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The alert was in affect for Ottawa North-Kanata-Orléans, Ottawa South-Richmond-Metcalfe, and Gatineau.

Tuesday’s rainfalladdedto an already soggy month. After besting a May 29 record for rain and winding down a month where we’ve already more than doubled typical precipitation, more rainwasexpected Wednesday and continuing into June on Thursday and Friday.

Rolf Campbell, who crunches historic weather data from Environment Canada and tweets as @YOW_Weather, noted Monday that with 29.2 mm of rain by 8 p.m. it was Ottawa’s wettest May 29 since records began back in 1872. Meanwhile, with a few days left in the month, Ottawa has already had 171.2 mm of rain in May, more than double the average of 71.9 mm.

A risk of a thunderstorm also exists for Wednesday where there is a 70 per cent chance of rain. The temperature is expected to reach a high of 19 C.