A team of storm researchers from an Ontario university are in southeastern Manitoba to investigate the deluge of rain that fell on the region last week.

The storm, which dumped more than 100 millimetres of rain in just a few hours on areas including Steinbach and Niverville, was described by an Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist as the equivalent of two months’ worth of rain all at once.

Researchers from Western University’s Canadian Severe Storms Lab are on the ground gathering data and evidence in a part of the province where many municipalities are still cleaning up the aftermath of overland flooding caused by the storm.

Research meteorologist Simon Eng told 680 CJOB’s The Start that severe weather has been resulting in more damage to homes and other infrastruc

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