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Toronto and other Ontario cities have received the hottest Christmas Eve on record due to the warm air mass pushing across Eastern Canada on Thursday. Senior climatologist with Environment Canada, David Phillips, explained that “I’ve been in this business over 40 years and I’m shaking my head over it,” but “this is just unbelievable.”
The high temperature of 15.4 C in Toronto just missed the 1964 record by three degrees to be the warmest day in the city since 1840, i.e. the time since meteorologists started tracking temperatures downtown. Whereas, the average temperature for Dec. 24 in Toronto is -1 C. Explaining the reason behind the increased temperatures, Phillips linked them primarily to the strongest El Nino in decades. He alleged that “if it feels like El Niño, it looks like El Niño, guess what? It probably is El Niño,” adding that “this super El Niño, the Godzilla of El Niños.”
In his remarks, Phillips confessed that “even a veteran like myself is saying ‘What is going on here?’” He stated that “these are temperatures that are like two dozen degrees warmer than they should be.’” Environment Canada reported that the highest temperature in Canada was observed in Cornwall, Ont., near the Quebec border on Thursday, with a high of 19 C. Phillips mentioned that “there’s certain things that are guaranteed in weather: White Christmases in Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie and Quebec City are among them — 95 per cent chance.,” but he added that “not this year.”
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