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What a wonderful day to be outside today. The weather is perfect with comfortable temperature and lots of sunshine. I also noticed that people are often in better mood in this kind of weather and with air quality index readings in the good category, what else could you ask more? I had […]

As predicated in my May 5th blog, Toronto was battered with strong easterly winds gusting up to 50 km/h. Our Mother’s Day trip to the Toronto Botanical Garden was quite an experience considering the high was only 15.4 deg. C but the lack of sunshine and howling winds made the apparent temperature closer to […]

With many sources of weather forecasts, one could wonder why the predicted forecast high for Toronto varies depending on your source. Of course, one can argue that temperature readings closer to the lake will be much different from one further inland. However, when forecasters predict the maximum temperature, they often refer to what’s […]

With rain in the forecast, it is a great opportunity to explore the May precipitation records in Toronto. Based on Toronto Pearson’s 71 years of weather records, here are the extremes:
24-hour precipitation record: 92.7 mm (May 31, 1944)
24-hour snowfall record: 2.3 cm (May 7, 1976) and trace of snow on […]

Current indications reveal that the mean temperature for the next 10 days will be below normal. Environment Canada’s mean temp anomaly shows that Southern Ontario will be around 0.5 to 0.8 deg. C below normal while the National Weather Service in the US puts a 70% probability of being below normal.
The […]

The major low pressure system that has been affecting Southern Ontario in the past three days finally exited the area but it left copious amounts of rain. The system was much stronger when it hit the American Midwest resulting in about 82 tornado & 217 severe wind reports and 457 severe t-storm warnings.
The climax […]