Remnants of Hurricane Beryl could bring days of torrential rain to London area
CBC
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the London area, calling for potentially heavy rainfall caused by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl, starting as soon as late Tuesday night and going into Thursday.
There could be torrential downpours with rainfall rates of up to 20 to 40 mm per hour at times. Localized rainfall could be in excess of 50 mm in portions of southern Ontario. As of Tuesday morning, the event is still too far away to be exact, said senior meteorologist Yoseph Mengesha.
"Right now [the hurricane] is in the Arkansas area and it's moving heading northeast," said Mengesha. "Usually this kind of system brings a lot of moisture, like tropical rain. It has a history of dumping significant rainfall into parts of southern Ontario. The question is like which area will get the most part of this one?"
The weather agency will be able to better predict the storm later Tuesday afternoon, he said.
Hurricane Beryl caused devastation in the Caribbean and Mexico earlier this month and has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. It's expected to move through the lower Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday, the weather service said.