Regina residents woke up to multiple street closures because of an early Tuesday morning heavy rainstorm, which caused flash flooding in different parts of the city..The rain flooded streets, underpasses, and parts of the Ring Road, closing several of the major traffic arteries through Regina..Many roads looked like swimming pools, causing delays for people heading to work..The Ring Road was closed in two spots, at Ross Avenue and at Winnipeg Street..At the Winnipeg Street underpass, a vehicle was stuck in the flood waters as the driver attempted to go through the water prior to the city of Regina closing the road..The Albert Street underpass reopened just after 9 am, according to the city. .Still closed are the Winnipeg Street, Dewdney Avenue, and Victoria Avenue underpasses, which are usually very busy thoroughfares..Transit services are forced to take detours around affected areas..On Tuesday at 4 am, Environment Canada (EC) reported 29 mm of rain fell overnight..By 10 am, EC reported 61 mm of rain, only six hours later in several parts of Regina..EC meteorologist Danielle Desjardins said storms like the one that hit Regina can dump heavier amounts of precipitation in very localized areas..“With the nature of showers and thunderstorms like this, you usually get very localized amounts of heavier precipitation,” said Desjardins..“Regina definitely got the highest amount of rain out of southern Saskatchewan, it looks like.”.Desjardins said across the Prairies, the storm dropped lots of rain with Regina hit the worst. .Desjardins has some good news if you prefer sunshine — the next week should be dry and sunny..“As we move on in the week, it looks to be a little bit of a more dry pattern … only some slight chances of thunderstorms, but it looks sunny and seasonable for the next week or so,” said Desjardins..The city of Regina will provide information about the flooding later on Tuesday.
