In the span of three hours, Toronto was hit by three thunderstorms, bringing a record amount of rain that caused massive flooding across the city, according to a senior meteorologist with Environment Canada.
"July is typically the second rainiest, second wettest month. Well we had 25 per cent more rain in three hours than we'd have normally in the whole month of July with all the thunderstorms and systems that moved through," Meteorologist Dave Phillips said in an interview with CP24 Tuesday afternoon.and Phillips said 96 millimetres of rain was already recorded at Toronto Pearson Airport as of 2:30 p.m.
"This is a record for this day. I'm never impressed by the amount of breaking records on a day, but the previous record for this day, July 16, was only a quarter of what we saw today in three hours."Phillips described Tuesday's weather system as a "freight train" that lined up from London, Ont. right through the west of Toronto. He said it moved slowly in a straight line with a pipeline of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
"In fact, what tells me how intense it was -- we saw maybe 30 millimetres in 30 minutes, which is something you'd see in a hurricane, but the amount of rain, you could tell it was heavy because of the visibility. We went from 16 kilometre per hour in terms of visibility down to less than two," Phillips said.
The torrential downpour resulted in flooded highways and roads, transit services being disrupted and hundreds of thousands of hydro customers without power.
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