On Tuesday morning, there were reports of more than a dozen vehicles stranded along Glenmore Trail near Crowchild Trail southwest, due to flat tires caused by the hazardous road conditions.
Drivers called it a large pothole. The city called in a “defect” in the road where crews were preparing the road for paving and said the work was “compromised” by the recent heavy rainfall in the Calgary area.
It was gridlock along Glenmore Trail in Calgary this morning after tow trucks and Calgary police were called out to help more than a dozen motorists who reported getting flat tires from damaged pavement caused by heavy rain.
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Calgary police officers were called out to help redirect traffic as stranded drivers waited for a tow or scrambled to change their tires.
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The heavy rain also forced the closure of southbound Tsuut’ina Trail between Glenmore and 90 Avenue S.W. for several hours, causing traffic gridlock during the morning rush hour.
A large section of Tsuut’ina Trail southwest was also shut down for several hours on Tuesday because of localized flooding caused by heavy rain.
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On Tuesday a heavy rainfall warning was in place for a large area west of Calgary, including the city of Calgary itself, with Environment Canada warning localized flooding was possible in low-lying areas.
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With up to 50 mm of rain expected to fall over 24 hours before it tapers off Tuesday evening — added to the 107.4 mm that has fallen so far this month — Calgary is on its way to more than doubling the 65 mm of rain that falls on the city in an average July.
However, despite the recent rain, the city remains far away from breaking the record for the wettest July.
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Environment Canada Meteorologist Christy Climenhaga said July of 1927 when 245.4 mm of rain fell, was the wettest since records have been kept. In July of 2016, 206.1 mm of rain fell in Calgary.
“We do have some time left though,” said Climenhaga. “A few good thunderstorms can really blow our monthly average out of the water.”
While much of Canada basks in warm summer weather, in Calgary the daytime high on Tuesday was forecast to hit just 11 C with the possibility of some overnight snow at high elevations in the Rocky Mountains.
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In Calgary, the daytime high temperature on Tuesday was forecast to reach a high of just 11 C — less than half the 32 C the mercury hit on the same day last year.
With temperatures forecast to tumble to near freezing along the Rocky Mountain foothills Environment Canada also warned of a risk of frost and even some snow at higher elevations.
“It will be close to zero in many areas of the foothills — zero to 4 C range from the foothills to Okotoks and up to Jasper,” said Climenhaga.
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Wednesday will see the return of more normal, summer-like weather with the forecast for Calgary calling for mainly sunny skies and a high of 23 C.
On Thursday the forecast is for lots of sun and a high of 28 C.
Despite the heavy rainfall in the Calgary area, other areas of the province remain very dry.
“We’ve had some decent rain around Calgary and to the west of Calgary, but looking to the north is has been much drier — so it depends on where you are,” said Climenhaga.
An update from Alberta Wildfire on Tuesday said while cooler temperatures and higher humidity levels are providing some helping firefighters, there are still 61 wildfires burning across the province with 16 of them — all of them in the northern part of the province — considered out of control.
More than 1,400 firefighters, including some from Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Australia and Chile, are currently battling wildfires in Alberta.
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