PembinaValleyOnline News

In what could be described as a severe weather outbreak, multiple confirmed tornadoes were spotted Wednesday night as parts of the Pembina Valley and Southcentral Manitoba were hammered by very strong thunderstorms.

"As of Thursday morning, based on videos and photos, storm chasers caught tornadoes on the ground near Baldur, St. Alphonse, west of Swan Lake and near Darlingford," explained CMOS Accredited Weathercaster Chris Sumner. "The first twister was spotted northeast of Baldur between 6 and 6:15 p.m., with the additional tornadoes following afterward."

The results of relatively light Monday evening showers greeted Pembina Valley Rainwatchers as they checked their gauges Tuesday morning.

Winker Police Service is hoping someone in the area may be able to identify this individual.

The department is turning to the public, because this is a person of interest that may be able to provide police with information regarding a theft at Superstore June 3rd.

The image is being released for identification purposes only. The subject may, or may not, be responsible for the aforementioned crime.

If you are able to identify this person, please contact us at 204-325-0829.

Update Friday, June 7th at 1:24 p.m. - For the second time the Town of Altona will be the host community of the Pembina Valley Pride March and Rally on Saturday in Altona Park.

In light of word from organizers that food trucks will no longer be part of the event due to threats being levelled against those indicated as participating in a previously published online list, the Town has issued the following statement:

To say it was windy on Wednesday would be somewhat of an understatement, particularly in parts of Western Manitoba where gusts reached, and exceeded, 90 km/h.

It was a rainy start to Tuesday throughout much of Southern Manitoba, but for most regions, the bulk of the precipitation fell before noon with mainly sunny conditions for a good part of the later afternoon and evening.

Well, at least we had a couple of days without rain before another round of accumulating precipitation rolled across the Pembina and Red River Valleys late Sunday afternoon and evening.

"A low pressure system moving across the Dakotas pushed thunderstorms northward into Southern Manitoba," explained CMOS Accredited Weathercaster Chris Sumner. "The system was moisture filled as a southwesterly flow had been pumping the region full of instability and precipitable moisture all day."

As a cold front slowly worked eastward across Southern Manitoba Thursday, another round of shower activity added to the already considerable precipitation totals some regions have received over the course of May.

Southern Manitoba is waking up to the sound of sump pumps running every few seconds, and a landscape marked by waterfilled ditches and ponding on recently seeded fields after a substantial rainfall event hammered the region throughout Friday.

We suspect someone, somewhere is saying this right now, "Rain, rain go away, come again another day!" Yes, that Rainfall Warning remains in effect for much of Southern Manitoba with 50 to 60mm of precipitation possible Friday through Saturday morning before the system responsible moves out of our area.