June rainfall within average for Saskatoon area

Despite what seems like days of endless grey sky and scattered rain, the Saskatoon area is on track to be within normal June rainfall totals, according to Environment Canada.

“So far this month we’re at 64.7 (millimetres of rain),” meteorologist Terri Lang said Wednesday.

Lang explains the majority of that fell in about two days.

“June 7th when we had almost 41 mm and just between last night (Tues) and today (Wed), we’ve had another 29 mm,” she said.

June is typically the wettest month of the year Lang said with up to 70 mm of rain falling.

“We should come to expect that we’re going to get these cold upper lows that come through and dump this rain plus we get thunderstorms that tend to dump heavy rain,” Lang explained.

Rain totals in the Saskatoon area and parts of the north are the envy of Regina and the southwest, according to Lang.

“Regina’s only seen 22.1 mm of rain so far this month compared to our almost 65 mm so that kind of shows you a bit of the discrepancy,” she said. “And most of that fell in one day.”