WINNIPEG – Southern Manitoba, including Winnipeg and Brandon, is expected to receive 25 to 45 millimetres of rain Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, Environment Canada says.
“Although rainfall totals will be below warning criteria, there will be a significant amount,” a special weather statement from the weather agency says. “There will also be embedded thunderstorms with the rain, which will cause locally higher amounts.”
Rainfall amounts will be variable, Environment Canada said, with areas caught under slow-moving thunderstorms likely to pick up 50 mm of rain in a short period of time. That is most likely to happen in southeastern Manitoba.
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The most significant amounts are forecast to fall along and south of the Trans-Canada Highway. Rain is expected to move north from North Dakota, with the heaviest rainfall expected Tuesday night.
Rain is expected to taper off Wednesday from west to east as the system moved into Ontario.
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Rainfall warnings are issued in southern Manitoba when 50 millimetres or more is expected within 24 hours.
Places covered by the weather statement are:
- Winnipeg;
- Brandon, Carberry, Treherne;
- Portage la Prairie, Headingley, Brunkild, Carman;
- Steinbach, St. Adolphe, Dominion City, Vita, Richer;
- Morden, Winkler, Altona, Emerson, Morris;
- Virden, Souris;
- Melita, Boissevain, Turtle Mountain Provincial Park;
- Killarney, Pilot Mound, Manitou;
- Dugald, Beausejour, Grand Beach;
- Whiteshell, Lac du Bonnet, Pinawa; and
- Sprague and Northwest Angle Provincial Forest.
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