RAINFALL WARNING for Simcoe - Delhi - Norfolk

RAINFALL WARNING for:
Simcoe - Delhi - Norfolk
HEAVY RAIN TODAY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN SUNDAY.
ISSUED BY ENVIRONMENT CANADA
AT 9:13 AM EDT SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2008

A STALLED FRONTAL SYSTEM HAS CAUSED A LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN TO DEVELOP OVER THE MID WESTERN STATES. THIS RAIN WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE ABOVE REGIONS TODAY. RAIN IS ALREADY FALLING IN EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO AND WILL REACH THE REMAINING WARNED REGIONS LATER THIS MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 40 TO 80 MILLIMETRES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS LARGE PORTIONS OF THE ABOVE REGIONS WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS UP TO 100 MILLIMETRES POSSIBLE. LOCAL FLOODING IS NOW REPORTED IN PORTIONS OF ILLINOIS INDIANA AND LOWER MICHIGAN. ON SUNDAY THE REMAINS OF HURRICANE IKE WILL POSE A MAJOR THREAT FOR VERY HEAVY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THE REGIONS.

PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PUBLIC FORECASTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

I am ready!!

Our place is sooo dry that after it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, we had to water our lawns 3 days later.

Jonas...that's too funny!

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But I thought Ike was a hurricane, only powerful over oceans??? Loses its source of power once it hits landfall.
I guess the rainfall though will be the after-effects for us. But not the devastation of raging winds.

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If you look at the radar the main storm is going north of us

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Don't forget Hurricane Hazel.

Hurricane Hazel

She did not dissipate when she hit land but rather intensified.

In 1954 i was in France with the RCAF. We never heard about hazel till some one was sent a paper weeks later

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

....and gusts upto 100 k tonight....

Very strange weather. We just came back from "a walk on the wild side!!" Crazy wind! Kind of spooky..like Halloween! Have to be careful that a branch doesn't drop on your head! Supposed to drop to 17 by tomorrow morning. And no rain forecast for the rest of the week. And perhaps that coolness will get rid of this soggy humidity!

this humidity is wicked

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We had a bad night the humidity was high no fans no air.Maybe the electric bill will go gone a little

If those where the winds left over from Ike I'm glad I don't live in Texas!!!!