More rain fell on Ottawa in 2 days than in a typical August ottnews ottawa
Posted: Aug 09, 2022 11:57 AM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
After those 112 millimetres of rain, precipitation continued Tuesday morning and was expected to end around noon, Phillips said. Amounts for Tuesday are not yet available.On average, Ottawa sees about 85 millimetres of rain in the entire month of August. Looking back over 133 years of weather records collected in the city, only once has it rained more over two days in August: the 4th and 5th in 1981, when 116 millimetres fell, Phillips said.
"I think farmers are happy, gardeners are happy ... it's been almost an ideal kind of situation," he said.
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