Not only did the one-day heavy rain on January 11 reach levels not seen locally since July 1991, the monthly accumulation smashed a 91-year old record

Remember January 11, when Waterloo Region and much of Southern Ontario was blasted with record heavy rainfall?

According to the University of Waterloo weather station, it's the most rain we've seen locally in one day in close to 30 years.

They say the region was hit with 79.6 mm of rainfall, which lasted the whole day. It was the wettest day since the region got 82 mm of rain on July 7, 1991.

It also doubled the previous single day January record of 43 mm from January 15, 1995.

Overall, UW says the rest of the month was also pretty wet, indicating January would have still been considered above average if we received no rain on the 11th.

Unsurprisingly, they say, it was the wettest January on record at 154.7 mm, smashing the previous benchmark of 134.9 mm set back in 1929.

The average for January is around 65.2 mm.

The warm temperatures (which we'll touch on in a moment) also meant less snowfall for the month, with the region seeing 38.5 cm, slightly below the 43.7 cm average.

UW says we're also well below average for snow since the beginning of the fall. They say we've seen 73.5 cm of snowfall for the season, while the average for the same time frame is around 95.3 cm.

So about those temperatures. UW says January 2020 was the warmest one since 2002.

They say the month was close to four degrees above average, and was the sixth warmest January in their 100+ years of weather records.

The month didn't chill out all too much, with January 20 dipping briefly below -20°C.

The high temperature for the month was 11 degrees on the dot.