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Most of Saskatchewan was blanketed with rain over the past weekend.
The much-needed rain was heaviest in the central and southern parts of the province, though it also led to flooding in some communities.
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The highest rainfall total in the province was in Lucky Lake, which received 71.7 millimetres of rain over the weekend.
Other areas that received large amounts of rain included Rosetown and Outlook, which got 56 and 58 millimetres.
In Saskatoon, the city saw 27 millimetres of rain fall between Friday and Sunday, while Regina got 17 millimetres.
There wasn’t much rain received in Prince Albert, with only five millimetres recorded.
Dan Fulton, an Environment Canada meteorologist, said most of the communities in central and southern Saskatchewan received between 15 and 25 millimetres of rain over the weekend.
Fulton said the heaviest rain has likely ended, but there could still be some precipitation throughout the day on Monday.
“Still not quite out of the woods yet. Although the majority is done, we’re still looking kind of a little bit unsettled, depending on where you are in the province today,” Fulton said on Monday morning.
“It’s still raining in the east to begin with, and then there’s chance of showers or thunderstorms in the west later today. Still a bit of an unsettled pattern, but not quite as much expected as you guys have had over the last weekend.”
The Water Security Agency said it expects water levels at Lake Diefenbaker to rise by more than a metre in the next 10 days as a result of the rain in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
In a news release issued Friday, agency said said the rainfall would lead to increased flow on the South Saskatchewan River between the border with Alberta and Lake Diefenbaker.
The agency said Lake Diefenbaker has sufficient storage to capture the added inflow, but it will increase outflows on the South Saskatchewan to better manage the expected increases at the reservoir.
Snow in Alberta
In some parts of the Alberta rocky mountains this weekend, it looked more like Christmas than the first weekend of summer.
According to Fulton, some communities in the mountains received a lot of snow.
“From what we can tell, it looks like maybe some of the higher passes got as much as 30 centimeters. That’s a pretty good snowfall for the summer solstice there,” Fulton laughed.
“There’s definitely snow in the mountains with this system.”
