5.7 millimetres for Medicine Hat

By Brian Konrad

112 mm in K Country

Rain mostly eludes Medicine Hat

Aug 18, 2021 | 8:51 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — Medicine Hat did not benefit much from a weather system that dumped as much as 112 millimetres of rain on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

The airport in Medicine Hat recorded 5.7 mm of rain as of midnight.

By comparison, Calgary got just over 42 mm, there were nearly 45 mm in Claresholm and 29 mm in Bassano.

Elevations higher than 2,100 metres also got some wet snow.

Here are some rainfall amounts as reported by Environment Canada.

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Stavely 65.6 mm

Pekisko 60.9 mm

Beaver Mines 61.8 mm

Black Diamond 51.2 mm

Claresholm 44.8 mm

Calgary 42.1 mm

Gleichen 34.9 mm

Bassano 29.3 mm

Rosemary 28.9 mm

Third-party observations

Kananaskis 112 mm

Highway 3 at B.C. border 90.8 mm