Well I see it is warming up in Winnepeg now. Summer just around the corner.
Record rainfall sparks flooding fears
March 29, 2004
WINNIPEG (CP)
Record rainfall on the weekend has emergency officials anxiously watching creeks and tributaries south and west of Winnipeg for possible flooding.
Environment Canada meteorologist Jay Anderson said that if the weekend’s rain had been snow, “it would have been comparable to the ’97 blizzard.”
“It’s getting to the point where the whole watershed is wet, so we’ll be fairly sensitive to further rainfall,” provincial flood forecaster Alf Warkentin said yesterday.
“That would still be bad news if we got rain late this week.”
He said the Pembina River has jumped almost two metres and Shannon Creek, which comes into the west side of Morris, is up 2.5 metres.
“There’s going to be localized flooding,” he warned. “The flood potential in the Interlake is quite significant. Once it warms up, that will be the hot spot.”
Warkentin said many fields have so much snow on them that water has built up and has yet to break through into creeks and streams.
That could come with Wednesday’s forecast of 10 C, he said, though some smaller tributaries could have been near their banks as of last night.
Winnipeg International Airport was hit with 42 mm of rain. By comparison, average precipitation for all of March is about 21.5 mm.
The storm toppled the old rainfall record of 32 mm, set way back in 1878
Mr Antler will be glad he didn't come back to gloomy old Prestwick
2004/03/30 14:20
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