A heavy downpour in Colorado has once again soaked already soaked and soaked areas of southern Manitoba, with a total of substantial rains that were recorded Tuesday morning in the Pembina and Red River valleys.
“Multiple rounds of showers over Monday, followed by heavy showers late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, have left the ditches full and the fields flooded again,” said Chris Sumner. , CMOS accredited meteorologist. “The rainfall has already dropped in the region, but there will still be a couple of waves of showers on Tuesday that bring in a few millimeters more.”
Environment Canada has issued a rain warning for much of the region, including the Pilot Mound, Manitou, Morden, Winkler, Carman, Altona and Morris areas.
The following totals are courtesy of PembinaValleyOnline Rainwatchers, the Manitoba Ag Weather Network and Environment Canada. Unless otherwise noted, totals are from May 30 to Tuesday, May 31 at 6 p.m.
Bite (Evergreen Drive) – 110 mm (about 4.4 inches)
North Horndean, Gnadenthal, Plum Coulee – 75 mm (three inches)
Altona (second reading in the city) – 67.5 mm (2.7 inches)
Dominion City: 63.5 mm
Wheelbarrow – 55.5 mm
Altona (in the city) – 52 mm (approximately 2.1 inches)
Carman – 51.6 mm
Winnipeg (airport) – 51.2 mm
Woodmore – 50 mm (2 inches)
Emerson – 49.6 mm (almost two inches)
Winkler – 48.6 mm
Gretna: 48.4 mm (May 30 only)
Manitou – 45.0 mm (1.8 inches)
Bite: 43.7 mm (May 30 only)
Elm Creek – 32.6 mm
Morris – 23.7 mm (slightly more than 9/10)
Steinbach – 14.0 mm
Pilot Mound: 12.4 mm (May 30 only)
25 mm = 1 inch
Plum Coulee’s Donalee Wiebe sent this picture and message Tuesday morning: “Yesterday we had 1 inch and 2 inches overnight. More water around the rain gauge than inside.”
The wind warning is also still valid in the area, with gusts of between 80 and 90 km / h in the north this morning, before decreasing slightly on Tuesday afternoon with gusts to 60 km / h.
“Behind this descent, a deep trough of the jet stream is allowing a mass of cold air, for this time of year, to slide southward,” Sumner explained. “This means temperatures well below average on Tuesday, up to ten degrees or more, as we are between 10 and 12 degrees for daytime highs. Warmer temperatures are expected on Wednesday, as a flow of l ‘west makes temperatures slightly lower than the seasonal ones around 20, but we expect another cool day on Thursday, with a recovery back in the range of 20 to 23 over the weekend.
More chances of rain this week?
“At this point, it looks like a much quieter, less active pattern will set in after this last water,” he said. “Hopefully the pressure on the prairies will increase by the end of this week and next, and that will help keep things dry and relatively sunny.”
Winkler’s Brenda Dyck sent us this photo of water in her backyard on Mountain Avenue
PembinaValleyOnline received an email from Winkler resident Victor Krahn on Tuesday morning informing us that a large tree fell on the roof of his house on 6th Street. One of our reporters was able to pass by while they were in the middle of cleaning of the fallen tree. See the gallery below.