Toronto seeing wettest summer ever as rainfall grips Eastern Canada
Global News
Many parts of Eastern Canada have been seeing a wetter than normal year – and the country’s largest city has seen already seen its wettest summer ever.
If you’re thinking there has been a lot of rain this summer in Toronto, you’re right.
In fact, many parts of Eastern Canada have been seeing a wetter than normal year – and with just over a month until summer ends, the country’s largest city has seen already seen its wettest summer ever.
“That’s impressive considering we are only halfway through August,” Global News Meteorologist Ross Hull said.
“This year has been much wetter than normal across Eastern Canada, especially for the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) and Montreal area.”
Hull shared the figures after the region experienced another heavy rainfall over the weekend, another rain event less than a month after catastrophic flooding in Toronto caused more than $940 million in insured damage, the Insurance Bureau of Canada said Monday.
Toronto Pearson Airport recorded 128.3 millimetres of rainfall Saturday, according to Environment Canada. Given that the airport gets an average of 78 mm of rain in August, the downpour meant it saw more than a month’s worth of rain in the span of hours.
Hull said the west end of the GTA saw two month’s worth of rain falling over a weekend.
“Toronto (Pearson Airport) has had its wettest summer (June, July, August) on record with a rain total of close to 500 mm so far, beating the previous wettest summer on record in 2008,” he said.
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