New daily rainfall record set in North Battleford last week. (File photo/Josh Ryan)

By Keaton Brown

Was A Wet One

Heavy rainfall last week set daily record

Jul 13, 2020 | 12:52 PM

North Battleford and area saw more water come down last week than any other point in their history.

Meteorologist Terri Lang said the rain that came down in a twenty-four hour period, from July 7 to 8, broke the single-day rainfall record for North Battleford and area set June 26, 1965.

“There was a daily record rainfall at North Battleford. The old record was 92.7 mm set June 26, 1965. On [July 8] 104.8 mm fell in North Battleford on top of the 50.8 mm that fell on [July 7]. So 155.6 mm fell in less than 24 hours,” she said.

Lang said the rainfall not only set the new record for the month of July, but set the new daily record for North Battleford since they started recording that information.

“Quite a significant rainfall that occurred and like I said that breaks not just a July record, that breaks an overall one-day rainfall record for North Battleford,” she said.

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The rainfall was so severe North Battleford was able to apply and be approved for the Provincial Disaster Relief Program, which provides assistance for uninsurable losses of essential goods to help people get back to pre-disaster conditions.

Lang said there are thundershowers forecasted for most of the province in the next few days.

“I think everybody over the next couple of days is probably going to have a shower move through their community,” she said. “It will be disorganized, which means some people will get nothing and other people will get a shower that moves through that might give 5 mm or so,” she added.

However, Lang explained the rainfall this week will not be as severe as last week and not enough to issue an advisory for areas of the province.

“Just a basic weather pattern that we are in so no advisories needed for that. We would only issue them if were expecting rainfalls over 50 mm of rain, which we are not expecting in the area,” she said.

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Keaton.brown@jpbg.ca

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