'So, we will be feeling closer to minus 20 in some locales, but through Monday, warming up to a balmy minus teens, minus 12 in the forecast for the City of Toronto, and much colder as you head further out from the Great Lakes,' Modestino added.īascally, Torontonians hoping to find any relief from the weekend's chilly temperatures can give up on that pipe dream, but those living up north should take advantage of the switch while they can. 'That same trough will be responsible for some gusty winds across southern Ontario over the Great Lakes,' said TWN meteorologist Rachel Modestino. It won't just be a brief fling either, with the warming system expected to remain across eastern Nunavut, allowing temperatures to continue rising well above seasonal. So basically, southern Ontario will be a wintry mess this week while residents of Baffin Island will experience significant relief from the cold. The report also reveals that when weather extremes occur in one spot, they are usually balanced out by strange patterns in other regions. In fact, the sudden return of bitter cold came close to breaking a daily record in Toronto on Monday as lows on March 28 typically land around zero. Visit Toronto.ca/LiveGreen for more information.If you're one of many Torontonians wondering where your spring vibes ran off to, the Arctic Circle probably wouldn't have been your first guess.īut, according to The Weather Network, a bizarre pattern has flipped the script on the city, sending temperatures plummeting more than 10 degrees below seasonal on Monday while icy spots like Nunavut are warming up. The City of Toronto is working to green its own operations, and providing supports and financial resources to help residents, homeowners and building owners do their part to meet our net zero goals. Toronto’s 2040 target is one of the most ambitious in North America. Toronto’s Target: Net Zero by 2040įollowing its declaration of a climate emergency in 2019, Toronto City Council in 2021 adopted an accelerated climate action strategy – the TransformTO Net Zero Climate Action Strategy – to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2040, 10 years earlier than initially proposed. According to The Weather Network, Toronto is expected to feel like 36☌ on Tuesday. waste (9 per cent), mainly from landfill emissionsĪccording to the City of Toronto’s latest greenhouse gas emissions inventory, community-wide emissions in Toronto have been reduced 38 per cent from 1990 levels.Īctions to reduce emissions in all sectors is urgently required and must be at the scale and pace required to address the crisis. Expect summer-like weather in Toronto this week.transportation (33 per cent), with the majority generated by personal vehicles.homes and buildings (58 per cent), primarily from burning natural gas for heating and hot water.The top three sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Toronto today are: To get to net zero, fossil fuels (primarily natural gas) used in our homes, buildings and vehicles need to be completely phased out by 2040. High lake effect in 2017 and windstorm in 2018 – $28 millionĬlimate change is expected to make Toronto’s weather hotter, wetter and more extreme in the years to come. Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributor to global climate change, accounting for more than 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions.Ice storm in December 2013 – $101 million.The City of Toronto’s 2020 Financial Report includes examples of extreme weather events and the associated costs incurred to the City: Like many cities around the world, Toronto is experiencing more frequent and extreme weather events these include extreme heat, extended heat waves and more intense storms, which have resulted in flooding, power outages, and extensive damage to property, infrastructure and the natural environment. From 2010 to 2019, total insured losses for catastrophic weather events totalled over $18 billion.Īccording to a report by the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices, the costs of weather-related disasters, such as floods, storms, and wildfires, have risen in Canada from an average of $8.3 million per event in the 1970s to $112 million per event from 2010 to 2019 – an increase of 1,250 per cent.

Canada is warming, on average, at twice the global rate. The impacts of global warming are appearing faster than expected. The climate crisis grows more urgent every year, fuelled by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global warming 2021 has joined the list of the seven warmest years on record. Warmer temperatures are changing weather patterns and disrupting the balance of nature, which poses risks to human beings and other forms of life.

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