{"id":599834,"date":"2026-04-12T20:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599834\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:53:17","slug":"heavy-rain-expected-for-next-few-days-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599834\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain expected for next few days: forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Environment Canada warns that the capital is expected to receive a significant dump of rainfall beginning Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a \u201cred\u201d statement Sunday, the agency forecast rainfall starting April 12 will total 20-30 mm in the capital by Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe frozen or nearly saturated ground has a reduced ability to absorb this rainfall,\u201d the agency cautioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rain is expected to move into the area late Sunday afternoon and persist into Monday afternoon. Thunderstorms may affect portions of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Environment Canada is predicting rain until Thursday with a possible break on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Outside of Ottawa, the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority has already issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/flood-watches-issued-ottawa-area-204105145.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:flood watch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;flood watch&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flood watch<\/a> for Tay Valley and Rideau Lakes regions as water levels remain high in the upper watershed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cA sustained warming trend over the next 10 days, with temperatures consistently above zero, is expected to continue snowmelt and runoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The flood watch will remain in effect until April 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark our <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;homepage&quot;}\">homepage<\/a>\u00a0and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sign up for our newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;sign up for our newsletters&quot;}\">sign up for our newsletters<\/a>\u00a0so we can keep you informed.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Canada warns that the capital is expected to receive a significant dump of rainfall beginning Sunday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,14881,223960,44,63486,227203],"class_list":{"0":"post-599834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment-canada","11":"tag-jean-levac","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-rainfall-warning","14":"tag-rideau-valley-conservation-authority"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}