{"id":831968,"date":"2026-07-28T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831968\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:49:13","slug":"edmonton-sees-wettest-summer-on-record-with-more-storms-expected-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831968\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton sees wettest summer on record with more storms expected for August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7c061077-f3c4-4dbb-9b79-fc21121dfefe.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>City of Edmonton (Image Credit: ID 258656632 \u00a9 Tetyana Babiy | Dreamstime.com)<\/p>\n<p>By Daniela Germano, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Weather<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 28, 2026 | 12:24 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton has broken a record for the wettest summer on record and it isn\u2019t even August. <\/p>\n<p>Brian Proctor, meteorologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, says the wettest summer on record in the capital city was more than 70 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>In 1953, the city received 417 millimetres of rain from June through August. <\/p>\n<p>This year, the region has been saturated by 580 millimetres of rain, and July isn\u2019t over yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Edmonton (Image Credit: ID 258656632 \u00a9 Tetyana Babiy | Dreamstime.com) By Daniela Germano, The Canadian Press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-831968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831968","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=831968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}