THUNDER BAY — A series of showers and thunderstorms moving through the region was poised to leave parts of Northwestern Ontario drenched on Monday.
Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for the southern part of the Northwest stretching from Rainy River to Dorion and including the City of Thunder Bay.
It said up to 50 mm of rain was possible in some locales.
The statement released Monday morning was initially valid only through early afternoon, but meteorologists later decided to extend it into the evening.
"The rain began a little later than originally anticipated in the Thunder Bay area," Environment Canada's Jeff Coulson said at 2:15 p.m. "There's still a number of hours of potential showers and thunderstorms to move through. The special weather statement is in the process of being updated through this afternoon and into early this evening for Thunder Bay."
Coulson said the weather system includes "a fairly large area of shower activity embedded with thunderstorms. General rainfall amounts between 10 and 20 millimetres are possible. But in some areas we could see local amounts of 30 to 50 mm."
He added that any thunderstorms that develop will have the potential to produce wind gusts up to 70 km/h.
