It's not your imagination: this winter is colder than last

The city of Toronto declared an extreme cold weather alert Wednesday morning as Torontonians woke up to chilly temperatures plunging to -13 C, which felt more like -20 C with the wind chill.

Extreme cold weather alerts are issued by Toronto Public Health when the mercury is expected to hit -15 C without the wind chill.

The alerts trigger additional services for homeless people, including emergency shelters, drop-in centres, 24-hour street respite.

This is the city’s seventh extreme cold alert of the winter.

Last winter, the city issued the least amount of alerts in five years with just seven from November through to April.

Geoff Coulson from Environment Canada said by Wednesday night temperatures will dip to -23 or -24, factoring the wind chill, but the harsh winds are expected to die down by Thursday morning.

“The minus-degree weather should continue on Thursday and Friday, but we won’t have the wind to contend with,” he said.

Environment Canada is predicting it will be -15 C on Thursday and -16 on Friday, which are below seasonal.

Seasonal temperatures for this time of year are -2 C, said Coulson.

But the weekend brings some relief from the frigid weather, with temperatures rising above seasonal.

The high on Saturday will be 1 C and 4 C for Sunday and Monday.

--Daniela Germano, Staff Reporter

Comments

[Sun Spot]

So much for Global Warming !!
I could give you endless links from scientists that don’t support the IPCC's (and MSM's) science/politics of global warming, but here is a link to only a few dozen.
Here is the paper http://www.co2science.org/education/reports/prudentpath/execsum.php
and here are the some scientists that rebuff global warming hysteria. http://www.co2science.org/education/reports/prudentpath/references.php

[Mohamjip]

The scientists have never said "global warming", but somehow people have gotten that phrase into their consciousness and won't let go. The term is "climate change", which means wild swings in temperature - sometimes very cold, sometimes very hot.

[Ges]

Sun Spot, I saw this article had one comment and I clicked, knowing it would start with the words "So much for Global Warming!" I know nothing will change your mind, but for any others reading I will reiterate the now-tired point that there is a large difference between global warming and climate change -- and no, the latter is not a new invention of scientists, it's the correct phrase and has been around for decades.

2010 was in fact the hottest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organization. These increased average temperatures trigger more extreme localized whether patterns, such as the massive floods we saw in Asia and Australia, more hurricanes, more droughts, and yes, snow storms and cold snaps. Climate is global, weather is local, it's not that complicated of a concept for those who are interested in thinking and understanding what's going on rather than simply debunking.