Just when you thought the summer weather was here to stay, Mother Nature is once again reminding us to not take things for granted!
After a sunny and mild Monday and Tuesday, the weather in Southern Ontario is about to take a dramatic turn midweek, plunging Toronto into a prolonged and unusually cold weather pattern starting Wednesday thanks to a high-pressure system moving over Northern Canada.
“We’re not talking sweater weather, more like (rain) jacket weather during this highly anomalous, late-May chill,” writes the Weather Network.
Late May daytime highs typically hover around 20 degrees in Toronto, but by Wednesday, The Weather Network is reporting that temperatures across the region will drop to 10 to 12 degrees below seasonal norms.
In Toronto, Thursday’s high could remain in the single digits, which is rare for this time of year. Historically, the last time Toronto experienced temperatures this cold for this time of year was May 22, 1967, with a high of just 9.4 degrees C.
And that’s not all – in addition to the cold, much of southern Ontario is in for wind gusts of over 60 km/h and heavy, steady rainfall, a result of a surface low pressure system hardly moving near Lake Erie. Total precipitation through Friday could exceed 50 mm in parts of the Greater Toronto Area.
Luckily, the agency reports that wet weather pattern should reduce any chances of drought as we head into summer. Temperatures are also expected to rebound closer to normal as we enter the first week of June, so just hold on until then! It will be water park season before you know it.
For now, be sure to keep your umbrellas and warm layers handy, as this unusually cold and wet May weather isn’t going anywhere fast. Sigh!