That was one wet day: storm breaks rainfall record
Posted Oct 6, 2011 05:28:22 AM.
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Maritimers are cleaning up after a nor’easter blasted the region with strong winds and a record-breaking rainfall.
More than 55 millimeters of rain were recorded at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, breaking the previous record for rainfall on October 5th of 39.3 mm, set in 1988.
Although the rain has receded, officials with the provincial Emergency Management Office were urging motorists to exercise caution today.
“We are advising the public to use cautions along the roadways with the high winds and water coming across the roads in areas where some of the ditches are at capacity, and some of the brooks and streams,” Dominic Fewer told News 95.7, while driving along the Northumberland Shore.
He said he’d seen flooding and washed out roads in Colchester County, causing traffic delays.
Over Tuesday and Wednesday nearly 90 mm of rain fell in metro.
At one point Nova Scotia Power was working to restore electricity to as many as 4,000 customers affected by down power lines.
Winds were clocked as high as 78 kilometers per hour at Halifax Stanfield International Airport and as high as 59 km/h at Shearwater.
The mightiest gusts were recorded in Port Hawkesbury at 102 km/h and on St. Paul Island at 120 km/h.
