Flooding possible as rain, freezing rain expected in Waterloo region, Guelph

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· Posted: Apr 02, 2025 8:56 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Wednesday greeting is expected to bring freezing rainfall that volition crook into dense rainfall successful the day prompting 2 upwind warnings successful Waterloo portion and Guelph.

Environment Canada has issued a freezing rainfall informing arsenic good arsenic a rainfall informing for Waterloo region, Guelph and Wellington County. 

Freezing rainfall is expected to deed eastbound of Lake Huron Wednesday greeting and determination west, reaching cardinal Ontario aboriginal successful the afternoon. It volition statesman arsenic snowfall and crystal pellets earlier transitioning to rainfall successful the afternoon.

"For locations implicit higher terrain, freezing rainfall whitethorn linger into aboriginal this evening," the upwind bureau said connected Wednesday.

Winds gusting up to 60 km/h whitethorn harm trees.

"The freezing rainfall could make an crystal accretion of 2 to 4 millimetres connected immoderate surfaces. Surfaces specified arsenic highways, roads, walkways and parking tons whitethorn go icy and slippery. Take other attraction erstwhile walking oregon driving successful affected areas," the informing said.

In the afternoon, dense rainfall is expected with thunderstorms possible.

The portion could spot rainfall amounts of 30 to 50 millimetres into Thursday morning.

Environment Canada said the crushed is "already adjacent saturation" which could origin localized flooding successful low-lying areas.

"Heavy downpours tin origin flash floods and h2o pooling connected roads," warned the upwind agency.

The rainfall is expected to extremity precocious Thursday morning.

On Monday, the Grand River Conservation Authority issued a flood informing for West Montrose aft rainfall implicit the weekend. 

The authorization says local h2o levels are expected to stay precocious passim the week.

"River flows volition stay elevated arsenic runoff from rainfall and immoderate remaining snowfall melt drains done the stream system," the conservation authorization said. The West Montrose flood informing remains successful effect until Saturday astatine noon.