Although we’re lower than a month into the brand new 12 months, it’s shaping as much as be the coldest day in Toronto since 2019.
An Arctic air mass continues to grip a lot of Ontario in a deep freeze, intensifying highly effective lake-effect snow squalls, leading to Surroundings Canada issuing excessive chilly warnings for elements of southern Ontario, together with Hamilton, Guelph, Windsor, London, and Barrie.
Daytime highs will stay within the minus teenagers for these areas, and windchills will make it really feel extra like -30.
“Temperatures are expected to moderate slightly today before becoming even colder tonight. Temperatures will moderate by Wednesday afternoon,” Canada’s climate company wrote on-line.
Whereas Toronto has not but been positioned beneath an excessive chilly warning, the forecasted daytime excessive of -12 C is shaping as much as be the coldest on report since January 2019. By dusk, temperatures are anticipated to drop to the -16 C mark, feeling extra like -27.
Some Southern Ontario areas, together with the Bruce Peninsula, Owen Sound, Bracebridge and Gravenhurst, may obtain greater than 40 cm of snow accumulation from the most recent lake-effect snowfall occasion, lasting via Wednesday.
Indicators of frostbite throughout excessive chilly
By Wednesday morning, Toronto residents will once more get up to bitterly chilly temperatures at -18 C. The subsequent spherical of snow is forecasted for tomorrow, too, as there’s a probability of accumulation within the 1-3 cm vary by Thursday morning.
The intense chilly additionally comes with the chance of frostbite, which will increase considerably when the wind chill makes it really feel colder than the air temperature. The longer the pores and skin is uncovered to the chilly, the upper the chance. Even at temperatures slightly below freezing, extended publicity can result in frostbite.
At -15 C with wind chill, frostbite can happen in as little as half-hour on uncovered pores and skin. As such, it’s essential to decorate in heat layers, shield uncovered pores and skin, and keep away from extended publicity to the chilly in excessive circumstances.
Colder-than-average temperatures are forecast to persist into late January. As February begins, milder air is anticipated to push north of the border.
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