Daily high temperature records were broken across the Southern Ontario unusually warm wednesday Season This winter continues.
While some records were broken on Tuesday as well, Wednesday’s record highs were more widespread.
“The unusually warm weather was pushed north by a system that took a normal track for this time of year over Lake Superior toward Hudson Bay,” said Anthony Farnell, a meteorologist at Global News.
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“Normally snow cover will ‘cool’ this unusually light air mass before it reaches the Great Lakes, but snow is not found in southwestern Ontario or much of the Ohio Valley in the US, in fact before For a month and a half until 2023, almost all of Canada and much of North America will experience well above normal temperatures.
Here are some of the new record highs seen in southern Ontario on Wednesday, February 15, according to Environment Canada:
- Toronto Pearson: 15c (old record was 12.2c set in 1954)
- Hamilton: 15.2c (old record was 8.9c set in 1976)
- Kitchener-Waterloo: 13.8 C (old record was 10 C set in 1954)
- London: 14.2 C (old record was 11.7 C set in 1954)
- Peterborough Airport: 11.8 C (old record was 7.2 C set in 1976)
- Kingston: 12.2c (old record was 7.2c set in 1976)
- Ottawa International Airport: 9.6 C (old record was 6.7 C set in 1954)
But will the warmer than normal weather last?
Farnell said there are signs that “we are far from winter” as the polar vortex disrupts over the Arctic, bringing cold and snow back to regions that have recently been experiencing spring-like weather.
“The pattern becomes cooler than normal from late February through at least the first half of March,” he said.
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“The big question is what happens after that?”
Farnell said that in recent years, cold weather persisted into April, delaying the start of spring. He said that is something that could happen again this year, but it is not yet clear.
“This winter is the least predictable that I can remember so I’m not ready to go out on any forecasts for more than a week or two,” he said.
In the short term, heavy rain warnings are in place for parts of southern Ontario, including parts of the Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton, London and Kingston, with a “mixed mix of precipitation” expected Thursday night, Environment Canada said. are supposed to.
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