City of Saskatoon reports 1-in-25 year rainfall from Monday storm

The City of Saskatoon is updating its residents on a massive rainstorm that soaked the city Monday night.

Anywhere from 10-45millimetres of rain fell on parts of the city over the span of an hour and a half at 6 p.m. CST.

Reports of flooding have been received across the city.

Saskatoon Light and Power said there were four major outages Monday night, including two caused by lightning strikes.

One of those was in the Haultain, Adelaide/Churchill and Nutana Park area, and the other was in the central industrial area.

An outage in Riversdale was caused by tree contacts and another at Station 20 West happened when equipment was damaged by the storm.

Power to all four areas was restored by 10 p.m.

The agency said updates are available at the City of Saskatoon website or on its Twitter account.

The city said lifted manhole covers should be reported to public works customer service at 306-975-2476.