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Much-needed long rainfall event forecast for southern Alberta

Some significant rainfall is on the way for southern Alberta this week and a good portion of the province for that matter.

Environment Canada’s Dan Kulak says we will see the much-needed rain over the next few days here and that should not only help farmers, but dampen the wildfire risk across the region as well.

Lethbridge itself we are looking at somewhere in the 30 mm to 50 mm range,” says Kulak. “It depends exactly where this weather system sets up. If it comes in further west into Alberta we could maybe see the high end of that 30-50 mm for Lethbridge and even more for the foothills.”

Conditions have been extremely dry over the past number of weeks with several places here in the south issuing fire advisories, bans, and restrictions.

Kulak says we are now transitioning into the seasonal wet period in this part of Alberta.

“Certainly we could use some rain in the province, especially those southern areas. This is kind of a seasonal weather event. We are getting into the two or three day rainmaker time of year over the next 4 to 6 weeks basically,” says Kulak.

Temperatures over the next few days will be in the low teens, however conditions are expected to start clear out on Saturday with a drier and warmer stretch of weather in the forecast for the last week of May.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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