**UPDATED**

If you were wakened by loud noise around 3:30 this morning in Portage, it wasn't your neighbours partying.

Environment Canada's Mike McDonald tells us it was due to a weak low pressure trough moving through, thanks to the hot, humid weather we've had recently.

"And those triggered some fairly strong thunderstorms over eastern Saskatchewan," he says. "And those drifted into southern Manitoba during the night. And there were two lines of thunderstorms -- one went through the Portage la Prairie area around 3:30 this morning, and we recorded a peak gust of 92 kilometres per hour, with those thunderstorms. Those have pushed off into the Winnipeg area right now."

A stronger line of thunderstorms moved through shortly afterward, and while the winds have dropped, the rain continues. Manitoba Agriculture's weather site tells us 46 mm fell after the first storm passed through. There's no report yet of how much fell from the second system.

Another view of the storm