April showers bring record-breaking rain to Waterloo Region
Posted May 4, 2026 09:52:59 AM.
Last Updated May 4, 2026 10:46:21 AM.
The April showers last month were the heaviest the region has seen in 15 years.
This is according to the E.D. Soulis Memorial weather station at the University of Waterloo. April 2026 will go down as the sixth wettest April of all time, and the rainiest since 2011.
Just over 130 millimetres of precipitation was recorded, with 100 mm of that in the first half of the month alone.
That included 2 cm of snowfall. The couple of centimetres put the snowfall total up to 241.5 cm for the season, which is the third-highest snowfall amount Waterloo Region’s record keeping.
The average snowfall amount is 159.7 cm.
Temperature-wise, the hottest it got was 22.1 C, the coldest, -7.6 C.
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