More rain fell on Ottawa in 2 days than in a typical August | CBC News

About 48 millimetres of rain fell on Sunday after starting around noon as multiple storm cells passed through the region, senior climatologist David Phillips said by phone Tuesday.

After those 112 millimetres of rain, precipitation continued Tuesday morning and was expected to end around noon, Phillips said.

even if doesn't rain another drop of rain in Ottawa all of August, it'll still come out to be about 30 per cent, 31 per cent more precipitation than you normally would get.".

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.

Rain and tstorms over Ottawa 1:30pm <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ONStorm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ONStorm</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ottweather?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ottweather</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ottcity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ottcity</a> heading south east I’m assuming with all the warnings on my phone <a href="https://t.co/YWQNJSymw9">pic.twitter.com/YWQNJSymw9</a>.

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#rain</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ottawa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ottawa</a> <br>well that was fun ...