Eastern Manitoba is dealing with flooded basements and roads, while the western parts of the province are dealing with power outages, while a second low level in Colorado is shaking the province.
Winnipeggers report collapsed basement walls and tank pumps that can’t handle incoming water.
“(Low in Colorado) somehow stopped overnight and just kept wearing rain and snow curtains in southern Manitoba,” Environment Canada meteorologist Dave Carlson told the 680th CJOB on Sunday morning.
“But now it’s started, the march is east, so during the day we should expect things to calm down a bit.”
A truck passes a flooded car in Elmwood, East Kildonan. Matt Purchase / Global News
As of Saturday night, Forks has recorded 60 millimeters of rain since Friday’s storm began.
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Police in Winnipeg have reported large sections of standing water and a large hole in Route 90 near Dublin Ave. and Notre Dame Ave., which forced a partial closure of the roadway.
The Henderson Highway subway on the Perimeter Highway was also closed Sunday morning due to stagnant water.
SPECIAL WARNING FOR TRAFFIC: FLOOD Several streets and main routes have floods on land and stagnant water, travel only if it is urgent. Route 90 / King Edward North of Dublin: North closed, south moderately flooded, look for an alternative route if traveling # MBstorm #wpgtmc #wpgtmc #wpgtmc. com / bEFL7VuqOa
– Winnipeg TMC (@WinnipegTMC) April 24, 2022
Winnipeg, along with much of southeastern Manitoba, remains under rainfall warning.
A rare wind warning has been issued in the Portage la Prairie area due to a potential for gusts of up to 90 km / h.
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Further west, the region is covered by warnings of snowfall and winter storms.
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The Westman region is full of highway closures and power outages caused by heavy wet snow.
At 13:00 on Sunday, there were more than 900 power outages in Manitoba Hydro, affecting less than 14,000 customers, compared to more than 15,000 at around 8:30 a.m.
Affected areas include the Dauphin area, east of Riding Mountain National Park, the Morden area, along with southwestern parts of Manitoba near the Saskatchewan border.
Wind and icing throughout the province led to many interruptions and poor road conditions. Below is just one example of hardware failure due to #mbstorm causing #bouttage. (1 /?) Pic.twitter.com/39O4VpKEel
– Manitoba Hydro (@manitobahydro) April 24, 2022
The time is coming
Rain is expected to turn to snow in Winnipeg on Sunday morning, weather expert Bruce Johnson told the 680 CJOB on Sunday morning.
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Two to four centimeters of snow may fall on Sunday afternoon over five millimeters of morning rainfall.
“The gusts are up to 80. There could be problems,” Johnson said. “Because you can get white in a heavy shower and then get that wind of 80 km / h and it can get ugly very quickly and in very isolated places.”
Meanwhile, the Riding Mountain area is preparing for up to 10 centimeters more snow.
The storm is expected to recede on Sunday afternoon, and Westman will see relief before the capital area.
“It’s really going to be a stormy, gloomy day,” Carlson said, adding that the rest of the week seemed calmer.
“I don’t know if there will be more large systems than we’ve seen, but I can’t rule it out completely, because this is the time of year when we tend to introduce these really powerful systems,” he said.
“We haven’t come out of the woods.”
The province reopened the Red River flood on Saturday to mitigate the risk within the city limits.
Read more: Province to activate the Red River Floodway during the flood
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At the same time, countless flood warnings have been issued for parts of southern Manitoba.
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