Rainfall amounts across Nova Scotia pass 130 mm
The long rain event brought flooding across Nova Scotia. Parts of Halifax saw 104 millimetres fall, while New Ross and Shearwater recorded about 130 millimetres.
On average, Nova Scotia gets 101.8 millimetres of rain for the entire month of December. Add together snow and rain, and you still only get a monthly average of 143.3 millimetres.
CBC meteorologist Kalin Mitchell says several dozen new daily rainfall records were set across the Maritimes by the torrential rain. The criteria for the record is rainfall during the 24-hour period between 2 a.m. Dec. 10 and 2 a.m. Dec. 11.
New records were set in Brier Island (73.8 mm, beating a 23.3 mm record from 2008), Kejimkujik (88.8 mm, beating 74.9 mm in 1975), Debert (59.5 mm, beating a 37.3 record from 1950) and Malay Falls (56.3 mm, beating 24.4 mm in 1950).
Nappan's 80.4 mm bested its previous record of 24.4 — set way back in 1928.
Here's a look at the rainfall amounts recorded by Environment Canada.
Rainfall amounts at the airports:
- Yarmouth: 49 mm
- Greenwood: 56 mm
- Halifax: 104 mm
Rainfall amounts at automatic observation sites:
- Brier Island: 80 mm
- Pointe Baccaro: 77 mm
- Western Head: 70 mm
- Kentville: 67 mm
- New Ross: 130 mm
- Shearwater: 131 mm
- Upper Stewiacke: 53 mm
- Malay Falls: 91 mm
- Debert: 72 mm
- Parrsboro: 71 mm
- Nappan: 94 mm