Calgary close to breaking records thanks to wet summer
Posted Aug 8, 2016 9:43 pm.
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It’s been a wet summer and the numbers certainly show it.
Now there’s word Calgary is closing in on surpassing the 30 year average for the entire year when it comes to precipitation.
Not including the storm that rolled through the city Monday evening, Calgary has so far seen 398.5 millimetres this year, a little more than 20 millimetres shy of that average.
August alone has been incredibly wet for the city with 59.1mm being recorded at the airport.
“Even though we have a few months left to go we’re definitely on the uptrend in terms of precipitation in the Calgary area,” said meteorologist Kirk Torneby.
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“This year has been quite an interesting year, we started with one of the strongest El Ninos on record and as we moved into July, it’s been kind of a repeat pattern,” he said. “It rains, clears up and rains again, it’s hard to say why we’ve moved into this stretch.”
Torneby says what’s missing is those “upper-scale ridges” that we have become accustomed to in Calgary.
It’s hard to say what kind of impact this storm will have on infrastructure capabilities and what kind of impact this will have on farmers.
“Looking to the next 5, 7, 10 days, it’s still a repeat pattern. We’re gonna get a little more intense rain, a few days of dry and then rain again.”
