Amelia Bellamy-Royds 1d ago

Hey Edmonton... if you haven't double-checked that rainfall warning since yesterday, it's been updated to predict weekend totals of 75 to 150 mm (the previous warning was for 50-90mm total).

Still expecting the heaviest rain to fall tonight (Saturday night/Sunday morning).

For reference, via @yegwxnerdery, our June monthly average is 78mm, but we'd already passed that before this storm (thanks in part to the big storm May 31-June 1). If we receive the higher end of the new predictions for the weekend, it will be a record rainy June. Even at the lower end of the predictions, it'll be the wettest month in 40 years.

(ALT for quoted thread: screenshots of the linked interactive charts, displaying the statistics described in the post texts.)
https://mstdn.ca/@yegwxnerdery/116779235876975432

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Show threadAmelia Bellamy-Royds 1d ago

Well, those scary weather warnings are still in effect for tonight, but for this evening the rain has decided to circle around the city.

I was sitting at the piano, trying to figure out the opening riff to "I Can't Stand the Rain" & noticed it was actually a pleasantly bright daylight outside. Decided I could squeeze in a quick grocery run today after all (with a splurge on a bus fare to get there & back a little faster).

When I was at the Rooster Kitchen open stage on Thursday, host Barry Westerlund was half-heartedly urging folks to come out to his set at The Works festival (outdoor) stage in Churchill Square tonight, while also suggesting they bring a boat, life jacket, and maybe wet suit if they do. But he must have spun some wizardry because he had wonderful weather for his set. (Whether anyone was there to hear it, I don't know...)

There still, however, might be a wall of water arriving for the Tsunami Brothers who are playing now & until 10pm.

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Show threadAmelia Bellamy-Royds 

We're apparently now at more than 100mm rainfall for the weekend, with another couple centimetres expected tonight.

FYI to #YEG folks: Most of the Edmonton area is now under alert asking people to avoid sending excess water down the drain because it might come back up in someone's basement. Beaumont & St Albert seem to be most urgent about it (I guess they have shared sewer / stormwater systems?). And roads are closed due to flooding in some rural areas

I didn't get a phone alert, but all the advisory alerts for #Alberta folks are available here:
https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-emergency-alert.aspx

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Show threadkeithzg8h ago
@AmeliasBrain If we get such backups here though I'm certainly going to be badmouthing the local dry ponds! Great idea in the abstract, especially here where we used to be a lake and probably shouldn't have traditionally ignored mother nature so much, but my faith in EPCOR and Stantec is such that I kinda just assume they failed to account for something and it won't really work when push comes to shove.

Certainly no water backing up yet at my place, but it *was* coming into the basement through the east wall a few days ago and again last night! Mops, a shop vac, lots of rags, and then me hanging up a tarp to redirect some water overflowing on the front eavestroughs followed by Marcel late last night unclogging the downspouts of a few seeds, seems to have it nice and dry all of today. Perhaps I'm speaking too soon, but phew, could've been worse!

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Show threadPaul Turnbull 🇨🇦17m ago
@AmeliasBrain I didn’t get an alert but then I checked I had alerts for the app turned off. 😬