Not your imagination: Manitoba sees rainiest September on record
To say Manitoba suffered a soggy September would be an understatement.
The system that brought record snowfall to parts of Alberta over the weekend didn't completely skip Manitoba, but temperatures were such that it manifested as at-times heavy rains rather than epic snowfall.
Still, the rain, which will mostly be a thing of the past by Monday morning, will be gravy for another, totally different precipitation milestone: Manitoba's rainiest September on record.
And it won't even be close. Winnipeg received 152 mm over the course of the month, a little more than three times its monthly September average of 45.5 mm. Brandon went one further: Its September rain haul of 176.7 mm is around quadruple the entire monthly average of 43.7 mm.
To put it in perspective, that's the kind of downpour you might expect for November in famously rainy Vancouver. And those totals don't quite include the full measure of the month, as there were still a few drops to fall Monday.
You'd be forgiven for being a bit fed up with the deluge, but there's some respite ahead. Forecasters say that, though there's a chance of a system bringing widespread rain to Manitoba late Friday through Sunday the first 10 days will be, on the balance, drier for Manitoba than September has been. For the western Prairies, it will seem positively arid:
