Edmonton weather: Warm, with some more showers and thunderstorms

We have a warm and sunny start to the week but there's more rain on the way.

After a soggy weekend, there’s more precipitation in the forecast for almost every day this week.

Only Thursday looks to be a full-on rain day, but today, tomorrow and Wednesday all have a chance of showers and/or thunderstorms.

There was a wide range in rainfall totals around the Edmonton region over the past three days.

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Officially, 20-40mm, but I’ve seen some backyard rain gauges reporting significantly more in neighbourhoods that got hit harder by thunderstorms.

(That’s always the case with summer showers and thunderstorms: it’s never evenly spread over an entire region as large as the Edmonton area).

Sunshine this morning with a few clouds this afternoon and a slight chance of a scattered shower this afternoon. The best chance for showers/thunderstorms comes tonight (especially overnight).

The same goes for Tuesday: We’ll be partly cloudy for most of the day and then some late-day precip might push through.

Both today and tomorrow should be fairly scattered shower cells so we’ll have a wide range in rain totals around the region again.

Here’s what we’re looking at for precip timing:

• Today - Slight risk in the afternoon, high probability in the evening/overnight.
• Tuesday - Slight risk late in the afternoon/evening.
• Wednesday - Moderate chance in the morning. Scattered showers possible late in the afternoon.
• Thursday - High probability of steady rain through the day.

Daytime highs will get to the low to mid 20s today and Tuesday. We’ll be around 20 for a high on Wednesday and then a low to mid teen high on Thursday with that chance of steadier rain.

Here’s the forecast for Edmonton and area:

Today - Sunny with some afternoon clouds. Slight risk of a shower or thunderstorm late afternoon.

High: 24

Tonight - Mostly cloudy with a 60% chance of a shower or thunderstorm overnight.

9pm: 20

Tuesday - Partly cloudy. 30% chance of a late-afternoon or evening shower/thunderstorm.

Morning Low: 13

Afternoon High: 24

Wednesday - 40% chance of showers in the morning, sunny breaks in the afternoon.

40% chance of late-day showers.

Morning Low: 11

Afternoon High: 21

Thursday - Cloudy. 60% chance of rain.

Morning Low: 11

Afternoon High: 15

Friday - Mix of sun & cloud.

Morning Low: 9

Afternoon High: 18

Saturday - Mostly cloudy. 40% chance of showers or periods of rain.

Morning Low: 8

Afternoon High: 14