Extreme Cold Weather Alert Issued
Posted February 9, 2011 7:31 am.
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The City of Toronto continues to shiver under an extreme cold weather alert as the mercury plummets.
The warning allows city staff to open up an additional 171 shelter spaces for homeless people, as well as forcing facilities to relax their restrictions.
TTC tokens are also available at a number of drop-in centres for transportation to shelters.
An alert is called whenever Environment Canada predicts a temperature of -15C or lower, without wind chill; when the federal body issues a wind chill warning for outdoor activity for people in the Toronto area; and when it predicts extreme weather conditions, such as a blizzard, ice storm or sudden drops in temperature.
This marks the eighth cold weather alert this season, with six in the last 25 days.
To put things in perspective even further, so far this winter, we’ve had more cold weather alerts than all of last winter.
But there is some hope for winter-weary Torontonians. On Saturday, the mercury will climb to 1C (yes, that’s above zero) and on Sunday, it will get even warmer, with a high of 4C in the forecast.
