Storms miss Kemptville

The amazing photo above is of the upper level low spinning over our area and the Great Lakes. It looks like a Hurricane but thankfully is producing rain and some hail, but not much wind.

So far the news is good for Kemptville today. While we continue to be under the influence of that stubborn upper level low, most of the weather has remained either southeast or northwest of our region. Storms continue to develop and redevelop in the swirl that is this system and spin counterclockwise towards our region. They may occur at any time today and tomorrow. Where they have occurred, the amount of rainfall produced has been amazing. Places around Renfrew and the Ottawa Valley have reported very heavy rain. In upstate New York, parts of Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties have had over 75mm of rain in less than an hour today. Flooding was reported. That area as well as all of Vermont remains under a Flood Watch.

It was likely a similar type storm that produced flooding in Oxford Mills last Thursday night. I was away in Vermont, but one of our writers, Diana Fisher, provided me with the photo you see above. It rained for less than 20 minutes and produced serious flash flooding. I checked area weather stations and only found a few mm had fallen. It was much more over Oxford Mills, but I have no definite amount to report. If anyone out there in Oxford Mills has a rain gauge, give me a call here at The Advance.

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