2024 Year-in-Review Part 2: Precipitation

Are you ready for our 2024 Year-in-Review Part 2: Precipitation! 

We will take a look at Edmonton, and some other cities across Canada.

Edmonton averages 435mm of combined precipitation (rain + snow) each year. 

2024 was a little low, with around 372mm at both the Airport and Blatchford, and 333mm at Stony Plain.

Of all of the stations in the Edmonton area Campsie was up around average with 454mm. But all of the other stations were below Blatchford and the airport.

Our low 2024 precipitation is mostly from the very dry July. July averages 90mm, and this year most stations (except Campsie) were only around 40mm. January, March, April & October were also a little below average.



Big Storms

2024 was a quiet year for storms: 30.7mm at Blatchford on June 3rd was the biggest.

That's not very big for us, and the Airport's largest day was only 17mm. But July is usually our big month for storms, and not much happened there this year.



Precipitation Across Canada

For cities across Canada the total precipitation ranged from Kelowna at 264mm, up to St. John's at 1,699mm

The outlier cities for 2024 are: 

• Toronto's 1,117mm is its most on record, ahead of 1,110mm in 1977 
• Vancouver's 1,362mm was only their 35th highest on record, but it was at the top of their typical range close to 2018 & 2016. To find a year well above that you have to go back to 1997's 1,522mm.

Big Storms Across Canada

These festive-looking charts show the biggest storms of the year. 

At the top, Montréal had 154mm on August 9th, and 79 on July 10th. 

Toronto had 128mm on August 17th and 98mm on July 16th. 

Quebec City got 89mm on August 9th, and Vancouver got 67mm on October 19th.

Montréal's 154mm blew away their previous daily record of 93.5mm from 1996.

And since 1880 Toronto has only had 5 days with more than 90mm, and 2 of those were in 2024.

That's the end of Part 2 of our 2024 Year-in-Review. In Part 3 we will take a look at snow.