Expected rain over the coming days, has led to Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre to issue an overland flood watch for parts of western and northwestern Manitoba, including the Parkland region.
The province says those areas, along with the Saskatchewan and Assiniboine River basins in Saskatchewan could receive over 60 millimetres of rain, and some localized areas getting as much as 80 millimetres or more, between June 27 and 30.
Other parts of Manitoba could see between 40 and 60 millimetres during this period.
The province says this heavy rain could result in localized overland flooding, as well as increased runoff, rising flows and elevated water levels on some rivers, streams and drainiage systems.
A flood warning remains in effect on the Assiniboine River, from the Shellmouth Dam to Brandon, while high water advisories continue for Lake of the Prairies, Swan Lake, Red Deer Lake, and the Red Deer River, near its mouth at Provincial Trunk Highway 10.
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