Toronto may see a last gasp of wintry weather this weekend but a warmer than normal spring and summer is on the way, Environment Canada Senior Climatologist Dave Phillips is promising.
According to Environment Canada, the temperature could dip as low as – 8 C on Saturday and – 3 C on Sunday with the potential for flurries on both days but Phillips tells CP24 that the deep-freeze won’t last past mid-April.
“We may see more snow this weekend than we had in all of December this year but two weeks of April is not the spring. I am still holding out hope that this spring will be milder than normal,” he said. “The cross to bear for us is this early coolness. It is not a April Fool’s joke; it is just nature returning some of that cold arctic air that was missing in action this winter.”
Phillips told CP24 that this winter was the warmest the city has seen in 80 years of record keeping and saw the second lowest snowfall total ever recorded.
Phillips, however, warned that “April is a cruel month” historically.
“It is not over until we get to the end of April and we typically on average do get about five centimetres and three days of snow in April,” he said. “We do think spring will be warmer than normal, though, and I am willing to go out on a limb here and tell you that summer is going to be warmer than normal as well.”
Usually at this time of year Toronto sees an average daytime high of 9 C with an average low of 1 C.
