With wild weather hammering much of southwestern Manitoba, Winnipeg may have been spared the worst of the rainfall.
“I see a few stations here — one reported just under 74 millimetres of rain and 81 millimetres of rain (but) in the city here, I’m seeing reports of anywhere between about 15 millimetres and about 27 millimetres that fell overnight,” said Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Danielle Desjardins.
Desjardins says the Portage la Prairie area was the hardest hit with rain.
There are also reports that there may have been a tornado that touched down in the St. Malo area.
Desjardins said reports are being investigated, but there’s no hard evidence yet.
“Depending on the situation, we either assess social reports and the reports we receive at Environment Canada, or if the damage is very extensive, we do sometimes send a team out to investigate as well,” she said.
Those in Winnipeg Beach say the area was also hammered by rain Monday night.
Tina Hutchinson was camping with her daughter when the thunderstorm started rolling in.
“Everything around us was just absolutely soaked,” said Hutchinson.
“We’ve never seen a rain storm like that and we’ve never seen the streets look that flooded.”
The streets were so flooded her daughter Morgan was able to kayak down what should have been the main street.
“It started pouring pretty fast, and then the lightning and then the thunder, it was pretty intense.”
The forecast calls for more showers and thunderstorms throughout the day and into the evening, and some regions of the province — particularly in the north — are under heat warnings as well as special air quality statements due to an ongoing wildfire near Pukatawagan.
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