Hurricane Ike and Southern Ontario
If you’re in the Great Lakes region, expect to experience more rain and winds for the next 24 hours. Southern Ontario had its first round of rain Saturday night courtesy of the remnants of Tropical Storm Lowell. TS Lowell formed in Mexico but its remnants moved eastward and joined a cold front that brought heavy rain in Southern Ontario. Here are some notable 24-hour rainfall total ending at 2:00 a.m. September 14:
Windsor: 75.2 mm
Goderich: 57.8 mm
Harrow AAFC: 56.1 mm
Ridgetown: 47.9 mm
Eriaeu: 42.0 mm
Elora: 40.8 mm
In the Toronto region, here are the 24-hour totals as of 2:00 a.m., September 14:
Buttonville Airport: 26.0 mm (broke the old record of 21.6 mm set in 1996)
Toronto Downtown: 18.5 mm
Toronto East York (www.TorontoForecast.com): 15.6 mm
Toronto City Centre: 15.0 mm
Toronto Pearson: 14.8 mm
Starting at 6 pm tonight, the Greater Toronto Area will feel effect of the remnants of another tropical storm, Hurricane Ike. Hurricane Ike was a category 2 hurricane when it hit Galveston, Texas Saturday morning. Computer models are showing that the centre of the low will stay northwest of the city so the heaviest rain will be in communities near Lake Huron.
Based on which computer model you refer to, the bulk of the precipitation will hit around 6 pm with the heaviest rainfall around midnight. Scattered thunderstorms can increase total precipitation but current models indicate that the GTA will receive between 25 and 45 mm of rain before it’s over by early Monday morning.
The event will also be accompanied by very low SLP at around 992 mb and strong southerly winds gusting to 70 km/h shifting to the NW early Monday morning.
For the latest weather forecast and observations, visit our main site:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IONTORON16
Our latest weather update will be released on Monday morning with rainfall totals in Southern Ontario.
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Kristoffer Moraleja
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