More severe weather on the horizon
I’m Caitlyn Gowriluk, a reporter at CBC Manitoba.
We’re continuing to cover severe flooding in western Manitoba today, where people were stranded on rooftops yesterday and roads have been washed away.
Environment and Climate Change Canada says the community of Minitonas, about 375 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, received the largest amount of rainfall in the region, with about 148 millimetres of rain in only a few hours Sunday night into early Monday morning, while Swan Valley got about 72 millimetres.
But meteorologist Keane Kokolsky says it’s not over yet, with another severe weather threat on the horizon for today — and “the possibility of flash flooding once again, with potentially upwards of 100 millimetres or more of rain coming.”
While the exact track of the storms is still unclear, “all of southern Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan is under a substantial severe weather threat today,” Kokolsky said.
“We’ve upgraded to an extreme risk, the highest on the scale,” he said, with tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds upwards of 100km/h and very heavy rain possible.
