Prepare to get wet. Post-tropical storm Cristobal is expected to drop anywhere from 50 to 100 millimetres of rain on the province over the next day-and-a-half.
“If you get 100 mm over a shorter period of time, it could cause some localized flooding,” said Bob Robichaud with Environment Canada’s storm prediction centre.
Cristobal formed off the coast of the Eastern U.S. and is heading for the southern part of the province, Cape Breton and then on to Newfoundland.
But it won’t be anything like post-tropical storm Noel that hit the province last fall, Robichaud said.
Winds and driving rains from the November storm caused wave surges and flooding that tore apart residential and provincial infrastructure such as Conrads Road in Hubbards.
Reconstruction of the road was just completed about a month and a half ago.
Cristobal won’t bring winds anywhere near that strength, but Environment Canada is issuing rainfall warnings for the southwestern part of the province.
