Weather reality check: Record-breaking heat gives way to wind chill, wet flurries
GTA residents are waking up to a weather reality check on Monday after a summer-like weekend and three days of record-setting warmth last week.
The suddenly cooler temperatures this week will feature some single-digit daytime highs, showers, and even the chance of flurries and wet snow.
“We know that April can be quite a transitional month with winter still battling it out with spring,” says CityNews meteorologist Jill Taylor.
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“We can take a couple of steps forward and then a couple of steps back. That’s what is happening this week.”
It will be mainly cloudy for Toronto and most of the GTA on Monday with gusty wind and showers at times. The high of 12 C was reached in the early morning and it will remain around 9 C for most of the day, feeling closer to 3 C with the wind chill.
Things will remain cloudy and windy overnight and a chance of showers with temperatures dropping to near 2 C, which means wet snow is a possibility. Tuesday will be cloudy with a flew flurries or showers and a high near 6 C.
It’s expected to warm up a bit on Wednesday and Thursday with daytime highs in the low teens and a mix of sun and cloud. Friday will has showers in the forecast but will be even warmer with a high near 17 C.
Several Toronto records set during summer-like stretch
The summer-like conditions started early last week and ramped up on Wednesday with the temperature soaring to 26 C at Toronto Pearson, breaking the record 25.8 C for April 12, 2001.
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On Thursday, the temperature at Toronto Pearson soared to 28 C, breaking the record 27.1 C that was set 46 years ago in 1977. Friday’s high of 25 C broke the record of 23.9 C set in 1938.
The weather remained well above seasonal over the weekend with highs into the 20s and mostly sunny skies.
The heat even had an impact on baseball in the city with the Toronto Blue Jays playing with the roof open at Rogers Centre for the earliest time on the calendar in history. The April 12 opening was four days ahead of the previous earliest date — April 16, 2002.
