Brace yourselves: Toronto could break a temperature record today

Summer season needs you to know it isn’t over simply but, as Toronto could be headed for record-breaking temperatures Wednesday. The forecast excessive for the day is 32 C, which might break the earlier record for Sept. 5 of 31.7 C, which was set in 1945. However with the humidity that is been blanketing the town in latest days, the temperature will really feel extra like someplace within the low 40s. “It seems like it may be a highly regarded and humid day, not simply throughout the GTA, however throughout a lot of southern Ontario,” Mark Schuster, senior meteorologist with Setting Canada, informed CBC Toronto early Wednesday morning. A warmth warning is in impact for an space stretching from Windsor within the west to Hamilton within the east, however as of about 7 a.m. it didn’t prolong to the GTA. Schuster attributed the day’s warmth and humidity to “a sturdy southwest circulation of heat and humid air” from the US. Whereas today might be “a very uncomfortable day,” Schuster mentioned, significantly for individuals dwelling with out air-con, the warmth is predicted to be “short-lived.” A chilly entrance will transfer in Wednesday evening and convey with it temperatures which might be unseasonably low. Thursday and Friday ought to see temperatures within the low-to-mid 20s, however Saturday’s forecast excessive is 18 C, whereas Sunday’s is 15 C. That development ought to final for about seven days, Schuster mentioned, “however there is a sign that, as you look out forward towards the center of the month, it does appear to be temperatures might begin to go above regular as soon as once more.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/brace-yourselves-toronto-could-break-a-temperature-record-today-1.4810828?cmp=rss