According to Environment Canada, based on historical data, Edmonton’s precipitation totals should be around:
June: 77.5 mm
July: 93.8 mm
August: 61.9 mm
June: 105.5 mm
July: 121.2 mm
And, in the first weekend of August, Edmonton received over 33 mm of rain, already more than half the monthly norm.
We hear over and over that we are getting so many millimetres of rain, but how much water is that? Let’s turn it over to the magic of the metric system. For every one mm of rainfall, an area of one square metre will receive a litre of water, or half of what can fill a family-size pop bottle. Now, according to the people at Rogers Place, the ice surface is 1,512 square metres in size. So, if there was no roof on Rogers Place (insert your roof joke here), 121.2 mm of rainfall in July would have placed 121.2 X 1,512 L of water on the ice. That’s 183,254 L of water. Or, 91,627 two-litre pop bottles’ worth.
