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The remnants of Hurricane Beryl may dump “torrential” rain onto Southwestern Ontario – or maybe not, according to Environment Canada.
Noting it has “low” confidence “in the exact track of the weather system,” the national weather agency has issued a warning for the London region over “torrential downpours” that could begin late Tuesday and continue into Wednesday. They’re calling for:
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- Torrential downpours with rainfall rates of 20 to 40 millimetres of rain per hour at times
- Localized rainfall totals possibly well in excess of 50 mm
But in the forecast, Environment Canada officials added the following: “Confidence in the track of the weather system and associated rainfall amounts is low at this point.”
The warning was in effect for London, Parkhill and eastern parts of Middlesex County.
Hurricane Beryl crashed into Houston, Texas, killing several people, unleashing flooding and leaving millions without power just as a brutal heat wave was arriving in its aftermath.
Beryl was blamed for killing several people in Texas and at least one in Louisiana, officials said.
The storm weakened into a tropical depression after making landfall, and by Tuesday morning its centre was over southwestern Arkansas, moving northeast with maximum sustained wind speeds near 30 miles/hour (48 kilometres/hour), U.S. officials said. Its strength wasn’t expected to change much in the next day or two.
Beryl still threatened to unleash more harsh weather over several other states in coming days. It was expected to bring heavy rainfall and possible flash flooding from the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes on Tuesday into Wednesday.
Beryl on Tuesday was far less powerful than the Category 5 behemoth that earlier tore a deadly path of destruction through parts of Mexico and the Caribbean. But its winds and rains still knocked down hundreds of trees that had already been teetering in water-saturated earth, and strand dozens of cars on flooded roads.
-With files from Associated Press
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