After breaking an 86-year-old weather record just over two weeks ago, it looks like Toronto just may do it again with well-above seasonal highs coming this week.
True to the Farmers’ Almanac predictions of a “Polar Coaster Spring”, this week might give you whiplash, increasing to double-digits highs in the first half before plummeting into freezing temperatures by Thursday morning.
According to The Weather Network, the mild forecast kicking off the week is due to an upper-level ridge rising over the Great Lakes, in combination with a broad low-pressure system building over the Midwest in the United States.
With the system will also come rain and the potential of winter thunderstorms.
If the temperatures reach a predicted 15 C on Wednesday, February 28, it will beat the last highest temperature record set on the same day in 2016, which reached a high of 14.4 C.
Sadly, the balmy start to the week won’t last long, plunging overnight on Wednesday by a dramatic 21 degrees to -6 C overnight.
Take caution if the precipitation continue overnight, as this brings the risk of a flash freeze.