Last night’s soaker was indeed a soaker. Luckily that area of low pressure that brought the rain moved over our region like a bullet. By 10am this morning the rain had mostly tapered off and rainfall totals for our region (with the exception of Oshawa) was on the low end of yesterday’s forecasted values…
• Peterborough (Airport) - 21.7mm
• Peterborough (Downtown Post Office) - 20mm
• Bancroft - 19.3mm*
• Oshawa - 35.4mm
While 20mm here in Peterborough is a lot of rain, Oshawa nearly doubled that. Both of these totals were nothing compared to the rain Kingston saw (my old CKWS TV stomping grounds). K-Town was the clear “winner” with 53.7mm as of 9am this morning when Environment Canada issued a special weather statement with that total. Now that the rain has cleared (yay) it is wind that will be a problem (boo). Gusts in excess of 55km/h have already been recorded at the airport and the wind will continue to shift to a more northwesterly component which will cool things down. Wind was responsible for affecting the Otonabee Transmission Station leaving over 1000 customers without power this afternoon. Power has now been restored (for now) but more outages are possible as high winds continue affect our region this evening.
*Bancroft total as of 9am...rain was still falling there much later.
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