Ottawa under rainfall warning
Posted May 1, 2017 04:58:45 AM.
Last Updated May 1, 2017 10:23:17 AM.
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OTTAWA – We are getting quite a soaking to start the month of May.
The nation’s capital is under a rainfall warning from Environment Canada.
We’ve already had 25-35 millimetres of rain, with another 25-30 millimetres forecast before the rain tapers off late Monday or early Tuesday.
Thunderstorms are also forecast.
Jill Taylor’s Ottawa Forecast:
Today: Showers and thunderstorms.
25-30mm
Wind out of the east-north-east to 30km/hour.
Guaranteed high 13.
Tonight: Windy with showers and scattered thunderstorms.
Temperature steady near 13.
Tomorrow: Cloudy and windy with showers.
High near 14.
Wednesday: Cloudy with northwest wind.
High near 14.
Thursday: Sun and cloud.
High near 15.
Friday: Rain.
High near 9.
According to records from 1939-2016:
Record high: 29.7 (2001)
Record low: -4.4 (1943)
Greatest rainfall: 15.4mm (2003)
Greatest snowfall: 2.0cm (1963)
Average high: 16
Average low: 5
