Environment Canada says residents of Toronto, the GTA and much of central Ontario will celebrate the New Year with a “multi-day episode of very cold wind chills.” Hooray!
The Environment Canada alert, which now covers York and Durham Regions, along with Barrie and Peterborough, says temperatures may have felt like – 30 C in some areas with the wind chill on Monday morning.
“These wind chills will moderate during the day,” Environment Canada meteorologists said.
It was – 17 C at Pearson Airport on Monday morning at 6:45 a.m. It was – 26 C in Barrie and – 33 C in Peterborough. Toronto and regions to the west were dropped from the alert at about 9 a.m. Monday.
Environment Canada said Pearson Airport broke a 50-year-old cold temperature record Monday morning, with a reading of - 22.6 C, shattering the previous record of - 21.1 C, set in 1968. Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa also broke longstanding records.
