SAY IT AIN’T SNOW!: Summer just refuses to quit in Toronto

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The weather outside is anything but frightful.

Enjoy it while it lasts – because above-normal temperatures are expected to dominate for the rest of October.

“We’re actually forecasting for highs around 25C in Toronto for the start of this week; the normal high for this time of year is 18C,” Geoff Coulson, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, told The Toronto Sun.

“That’s close to record highs, but the record temperatures are a few degrees still warmer than that.”

Environment Canada’s forecast calls for highs of 27C on Monday, 29C on Tuesday and 26C on Wednesday. The humidex will make it feel hotter.

Temperatures cool and there’s a chance of showers later in the week.

“For the month of October, we’re expecting overall above-normal temperatures,” added Coulson.

As for snow, October isn’t traditionally the month where we get that first snowfall, he said.

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That could all change as we transition into November, however.

“The normal high for Toronto on Nov. 1 is still around 10C and the overnight low is 1.5C, on average,” Coulson said.

In the last few years, the first measurable snowfall – which is basically 0.2 cm or more – hasn’t fallen until mid-November.

On Nov. 13, 2022, Toronto had 0.2 centimetres on Nov. 13, 2022 and a couple of days later, 4.2 centimetres of snow fell on Nov. 15.

It was consistent with the year before, when Toronto got 1.4 centimetres on Nov. 14, 2021.

“All it would take is a good shot of Arctic air and the right conditions and again we could see something in early November,” cautioned Coulson.