The weather continues to play rough across Canada this year.
After massive forest fires in Alberta made world headlines this year, now comes a massive rain storm that swept across the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan in the past few days.
Although forest fires are a continuing and ongoing concern in several provinces, the opposite is true in much of the central prairie province.
Several communities have declared states of emergency including the city of Estevan in the southeast of the province where as much as 130mm of rain fell in the space of under three hours.
Quoted by CBC news, Estevan resident Tara Smart said, “The rain just kept coming and coming and coming and then it got to the point where it was coming down so hard and fast you couldn’t see across the street,” Smart said. “Then the hail. And usually hail goes away after a couple of minutes. This hail just kept on and on and on. And so it looked like snow all over the ground”.
Other areas received anywhere from 23 to 98mm of rain in a 32 hour period over the weekend.
The weather system has weakened and is now moving eastward through Manitoba.
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