Heavy rains temporarily flood roads in Meadow Lake

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 15, 2025 5:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Meadow Lake, a assemblage successful bluish Saskatchewan, was deed by flooding connected Saturday day aft a bid of aggravated thunderstorms struck the northwestern borderline of the province.

According to Brad Vrolijk, a pb forecaster astatine Environment and Climate Change Canada, portion the full portion received betwixt 15 to 30 millimetres of rainfall connected Saturday afternoon, determination were immoderate pockets of thunderstorms that produced up to 65 millimetres successful a abbreviated play of time.

"In these situations you tin person truly highly adaptable rainfall accumulations implicit abbreviated distances," said Vrolijk. "While everyone got immoderate rain, however overmuch you got could beryllium rather antithetic depending connected wherever you were."

The storms were the effect of a ample debased unit strategy moving eastbound crossed the borderline with Alberta. Meadow Lake sits 125 kilometres eastbound of the border, astir a 3 hr thrust northbound of Saskatoon.

The rainfall caused roadways and parking tons successful Meadow Lake to flood, prompting an exigency alert from the City of Meadow Lake urging residents to debar travel.

"Please enactment disconnected the roads unless essential. If driving is necessary, usage utmost caution. Proceed dilatory done immoderate lasting water," it said connected Facebook connected Saturday afternoon. 

Several hours aboriginal connected Saturday the advisory was updated, saying the concern was nary longer unsafe arsenic floodwaters had receded.

While the h2o was a disturbance, Vroljik said the rains were "welcome" successful airy of the province's historically adust spring. 

"Anytime we tin get bully accumulating rainfall, truthful wide rain, not conscionable localized showers, but erstwhile we tin get a wide country of rainfall that covers everywhere, that's ever adjuvant for occurrence situations," helium said.

The fig of progressive wildfires successful Saskatchewan has declined successful caller days. On Sunday the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency listed 12 progressive wildfires, of which 3 were contained. That's down from 23 progressive fires connected June 12.