Record-breaking temperatures expected to last rest of weekend
Posted Feb 19, 2017 11:45:35 AM.
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Environment Canada says more spring-like weather that smashed temperature records in Ontario is in store for the rest of the weekend.
570 NEWS weather specialist John Wilson says Waterloo Region broke a record set back in 1949 of 10.5 C with a high of 11.9 C Saturday afternoon.
Trudy Kidd, a meteorologist with the weather agency, says Toronto saw a new record high for Feb. 18, with the mercury hitting 11.9 C at Toronto Pearson Airport. The previous record for that day was set in 2011 at 10.8 C.
Kidd says Windsor was the hot spot in the province that day, with temperatures reaching 19.1 C, beating the previous record set in 2011 by nearly 7 C.
She says Saturday’s record-breaking temperatures stretched from Windsor all the way to to Bancroft, and as far north as Sudbury, North Bay and Thunder Bay.
The balmy weather is expected to last Sunday, with the high in Waterloo Region expecting to reach 9 C.
She adds that Windsor has a better chance of breaking its temperature record. Sunday’s forecast is a high of 14 C, and the record set last year was 14.4 C.
But hang on to those winter jackets, Kidd warns, winter isn’t over yet. Rain, and possibly some snow, could arrive by next weekend.
