A crazy thunderstorm drops over 100 millimeters of rain in Toronto

A crazy thundersotrm hit toronto ontario and the GTA area yesterday afternoon. This thunderstorm dropped over 100+ milimeters of rain in some parts of the GTA area in a couple of hours.Some areas got hit with over 50+ milimeters of rain in a couple of hours.

Thie rain that fell yesterday broke monthly/daily records for rainfall in parts of the GTA. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/07/08/toronto-weather-heavy-rain.html

I hope everyone is safe in that area and that no one is killed by this flooding.

Did it wash Canada away? If not, I am disappointed.

In all seriousness, though, hopefully our Canadian members are all right.

as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water.

i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

Last night was fvcking nuts. The area I live in was hit pretty bad but nowhere near as bad as downtown was. Still, I've never seen rainfall like this before in my 21 years of living and was sort of surreal. Here are some pictures:

Parts of NY were similarly hit last week. Perhaps the influx of tropical moisture from the south is providing added punch.

Water vapor imagery:

Similar stuff happens a lot back when I was in Arizona during monsoon season. 

So a thunderstorm in Toronto gets a topic in OT, but a train heading to the refinery next to my house that explodes in Quebec and kills 13 people doesn't? :?

Can somebody translate this into inches? I don't feel like thinking right now...

So a thunderstorm in Toronto gets a topic in OT, but a train heading to the refinery next to my house that explodes in Quebec and kills 13 people doesn't? :?

speedfreak48t5p

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So a thunderstorm in Toronto gets a topic in OT, but a train heading to the refinery next to my house that explodes in Quebec and kills 13 people doesn't? :?

da_illest101

as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water.

i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

frannkzappa

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as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water.

 

 

i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

SolidSnake35

100 mm of rain is almost 4 inches. Rain measurement at weather stations are measured in a rain gauge. They're not measured on the ground. We have warnings for 2 inches or more of rain falling within an hour because that would be enough for flash flooding and otherwise causing havoc on roads. With those kinds of rainfall, your wiper blades wouldn't be able to keep up with the rain.    

Typical rain gauge:

as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water. i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

frannkzappa

Can somebody translate this into inches? I don't feel like thinking right now...

Jebus213

I have no clue how much 100mm is but it sounds like a lot. :P

as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water. i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

frannkzappa

1 meter is a bit over 1 yard. Visualize a yardstick.

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as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water. i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

jun_aka_pekto

1 meter is a bit over 1 yard. Visualize a yardstick.

except 100mm is not 1 meter, it's 10 cm

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as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water. i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

lostrib

1 meter is a bit over 1 yard. Visualize a yardstick.

except 100mm is not 1 meter, it's 10 cm

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[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water. i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

lostrib

1 meter is a bit over 1 yard. Visualize a yardstick.

except 100mm is not 1 meter, it's 10 cm

I hope you meant 100 centimeters. 100 millimeters is 10 centimeters, and 10 centimeters like 4 inches. That's not that much.

Judging by the photos though that was a pretty crazy downpour.

A few more photos showing some of the areas with significant flooding:

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as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water.

i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

SolidSnake35

yeah i know.

1 don't know what a tenth of a meter looks like.

i had to convert in my head first.

edit: oh i said a meter...curse you metric system.

My favorite part was when 'Murcans acted like dumbasses because the Metric system confuses and infuriates them. 

My favorite part was when 'Murcans acted like dumbasses because the Metric system confuses and infuriates them.

LordQuorthon

please visualize in your head an object 1 rod and 2 links tall.

tell me your metric centric mind doesn't falter.

Did it wash Canada away? If not, I am disappointed.

In all seriousness, though, hopefully our Canadian members are all right.

airshocker

I feel for those in Canada. 

Living in Houston, we see weather like this all the time, but that never makes it any easier to deal with. Hopefully, people had flood insurance.

please visualize in your head an object 1 rod and 2 links tall.

tell me your metric centric mind doesn't falter.

frannkzappa

Durr, hurr, Metric system is Euro communist plot to take mah gunz. 

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

please visualize in your head an object 1 rod and 2 links tall.

tell me your metric centric mind doesn't falter.

LordQuorthon

Durr, hurr, Metric system is Euro communist plot to take mah gunz.

what the hell are you talking about?

Yeah, it's the moisture that caused the rain down here in Georgia from Tuesday the 2nd to Sunday the 7th. We are finally out of the flood warnings that started at 8AM Tuesday last week. We probably had a good foot of rain over the last week in most areas and had flooding too. The sad thing is that some of it is preventable and other flooding is totally preventable.

Atlanta weather | Heavy rain floods interstates, side streets 

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as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water.

 

 

i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

frannkzappa

yeah i know.

1 don't know what a tenth of a meter looks like.

i had to convert in my head first.

edit: oh i said a meter...curse you metric system.

Depending on the size of your hands, the width of your middle finger across the nail is about 1cm

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[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"] 100mm is only 10cm. A tenth of a metre.lostrib

yeah i know.

1 don't know what a tenth of a meter looks like.

i had to convert in my head first.

edit: oh i said a meter...curse you metric system.

Depending on the size of your hands, the width of your middle finger across the nail is about 1cm

hmm that's a good mental image to use.

what the hell is going on here?

what the hell is going on here?

 

frannkzappa

It looks like one girl didn't want to get her feet wet even though others were. I call it being lazy. I could see it if she was 70. 

In the midwest US it's been raining like crazy. Feels like Seattle. Last month i think my area got almost 50% more rain than average and in just the first week this month we are almost what we average for the whole month. This summer has not felt much like a summer at all with all the monsoons hitting.Kurushio

Atlanta has had more rain so far the first 6 months this year than we have had all of last year. June even set a record of over 9.5 inches. That does not even take into account what we had last week. 

It looks like one girl didn't want to get her feet wet even though others were. I call it being lazy. I could see it if she was 70. 

WhiteKnight77

My favorite part was when 'Murcans acted like dumbasses because the Metric system confuses and infuriates them. 

LordQuorthon

going by my calculations for metric to imperial of double it and add 30 that means 230 inches of rain!

holy crap, it's going to take all day to get the goose down out of my street drains!

[QUOTE="Kurushio"]In the midwest US it's been raining like crazy. Feels like Seattle. Last month i think my area got almost 50% more rain than average and in just the first week this month we are almost what we average for the whole month. This summer has not felt much like a summer at all with all the monsoons hitting.WhiteKnight77

Atlanta has had more rain so far the first 6 months this year than we have had all of last year. June even set a record of over 9.5 inches. That does not even take into account what we had last week. 

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

what the hell is going on here?

 

WhiteKnight77

It looks like one girl didn't want to get her feet wet even though others were. I call it being lazy. I could see it if she was 70. 

I see your precipitation and raise you my home

Did it have sharks in it?

Last night was fvcking nuts. The area I live in was hit pretty bad but nowhere near as bad as downtown was. Still, I've never seen rainfall like this before in my 21 years of living and was sort of surreal. Here are some pictures:

 

 

Aljosa23

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[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

as an American engineer i can safely say i no idea how to visualize a meter of water. i had to convert it to feet in my head first.

lostrib

1 meter is a bit over 1 yard. Visualize a yardstick.

except 100mm is not 1 meter, it's 10 cm

100mm is not that hard either. We learned in elementary that distance in the metric system work with multiples of 10:

1 meter = 10 decimeter = 100 centimeter = 1000 millimeter. 1 kilometer = 1000 meter. 

I learned early on that 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters. From there, it's not hard to do the math.

I can't quite do all the multiplication or division in my head when converting between metric and English system. But, I can scribble them on a piece of paper and figure it out. 

I hope you meant 100 centimeters. 100 millimeters is 10 centimeters, and 10 centimeters like 4 inches. That's not that much.

Judging by the photos though that was a pretty crazy downpour.

Cloud_765

It is when they fall within the span of two hours. Two inches is the maximum amount the rain gauge will hold without using the overflow container. The only places where I've personally seen a rain gauge fill up to max within a few hours are in tropical countries like Colombia.