Windsor breaks 78-year-old record temperature
Environment Canada says the Oct. 30 temperature reached 24.6 C
Fall in Windsor, Ont., this year has been extra warm, and Environment Canada now says the city broke a 78-year-old heat record for Oct. 30.
Peter Kimbell, warning preparedness meteorologist at Environment Canada, says Windsor saw its highest heat record for that date on Wednesday in recorded history.
"[Wednesday] Windsor hit a record temperature of a maximum of 24.6 degrees. That is a new record, because the oldest record for October 30th was 22.9 in 1946."
Kimbell says he attributes the warmer weather across southern Ontario to a region of high pressure over the eastern sea board of the Atlantic Ocean.
"The southeastern U.S. coast, so speaking of Georgia, southern Carolina, and into the western Atlantic ocean. There's also an area of low pressure over Wisconsin and the Great Lakes."
For Halloween, the record high is also 23.9 C set back in 1950. The forecasted high for Thursday is 23 C so another warm record could be in the offing.