Today's Weather

[Markster]

These April Showers are really persistent

[clasher]

Hopefully flooding doesn't get out of hand!

[timc]

It seems like the Nith floods almost every year in New Hamburg. I assume it is a possibility again this time around.

[jgsz]

It seems like the Nith floods almost every year in New Hamburg. I assume it is a possibility again this time around.

The Nith runs behind our place, separated by a large farmers' field.  I don't expect the Nith to flood (near Perry's Corners) but the farms are so saturated that it could become a temporary lake and meld with the river.  That would be the worst case scenario.   I don't expect that to happen but I'll post pictures if it's newsy.

[MidTowner]

I don’t think you are exaggerating when you say almost every year- but that’s what rivers used to do before we put them under as much management as we now do. The area just above New Hamburg is a floor plain for the Nith- it does seem likely it would flood this year, given the unusual amount of rain.

[Section ThirtyOne]

Environment Canada hasn't adjusted their forecast yet, but the latest weather model runs seem to indicate we will receive more than 100mm of rain through Sunday.

Anyone have an ark I can borrow?

[tomh009]

Go for the high ground! We are on the 5th floor so I figure we should be all right.

[MidTowner]

100mm in three or four days is probably not that serious (though it is like a month's worth...). We got almost that much the other week in about a day.

Then again, we got that much the other week, and it rained Monday and Tuesday. Water levels are high, so maybe we will see some flooding.

[jamincan]

That seems to be the main concern. The ground is saturated, so almost all of this rain is going to be run-off.

[kitborn]

The Nith River south of our house. 

   

[Canard]

This weather sucks so much.

[clasher]

That flooding is wild. The drainage canals, er, creeks as Kitchener likes to call them, are flowing as fast and full as I can remember.

[Markster]

96mm this week.

An average month gets about 85mm.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That was a lot of rain last week.<br>An average month gets about 85mm.<a href="https://twitter.com/RegionWaterloo">@RegionWaterloo</a> got 96mm.<br>Data from <a href="https://t.co/wfSs7c3PAr">https://t.co/wfSs7c3PAr</a> <a href="https://t.co/figpvwIgmL">pic.twitter.com/figpvwIgmL</a></p>&mdash; Mark Jackson-Brown (@Markster3000) <a href="https://twitter.com/Markster3000/status/861240062222184448">May 7, 2017</a></blockquote>

[jamincan]

Hopefully that means the rest of the year will offer us a reprieve from the rain.

[timio]

Hopefully that means the rest of the year will offer us a reprieve from the rain.

Hopefully not as much as last summer where we got minimal rain between June and August... rain is good sometimes.