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Flood-hit western Manitoba, where people were stranded on rooftops Monday and roads have been washed away, could be in for another round of heavy rain.
“Unfortunately, today there is another significant severe weather threat for the area, where there is the possibility of flash flooding once again, with potentially upwards of 100 millimetres or more of rain coming,” Keane Kokolsky, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada’s storm prediction centre in Winnipeg, said Tuesday morning.
The exact track of the storms is still a little unclear, but “all of southern Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan is under a substantial severe weather threat today,” he said.
“We’ve upgraded to an extreme risk, the highest on the scale, with modes of severe weather possible from tornadoes … large hail, damaging winds upwards of 100-130 km/h and very heavy rain.”
Up to 150 people are out of their homes after flash flooding in the municipality of Swan Valley West as communities in Manitoba’s Parkland region continue to deal with the aftermath of heavy rains Sunday.
The neighbouring Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman declared a state of local emergency on Monday, and multiple highways remain closed
