What to know
- Toronto starts the week with sunny skies and warm temperatures around 22 C, well above seasonal norms.
- Environment Canada says the nice weather will be short-lived, with conditions turning unsettled starting Tuesday.
- The rest of the week is expected to bring on-and-off rain showers, possible thunderstorms, and cooler daytime highs in the low-to-mid teens.
- Temperatures could run about 5-6 C below seasonal averages, with no strong signals yet for how the rest of May will trend.
Torontonians are being treated to clearer skies, sunshine, and above-seasonal temperatures on Monday, but Environment Canada warns that it may soon rain on the city’s parade for the remainder of the week.
The first full week of May in Toronto is starting off with daytime highs near 22 C, according to Environment Canada.
On top of that, clear and sunny skies have taken over the region, giving Torontonians a glimpse of a summer many have long waited for.
However, although the weather is shaping up to be a treat for Monday, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, Monica Vaswani, cautions that things will quickly change come Tuesday and throughout the rest of the week.
“We’re going to be dealing with a lot of unsettled weather, so we’re going to have on and off rain showers and maybe even some thunderstorms,” she said.
Vaswani says seasonal temperatures around this time of year are around 17 C, but the rest of the week could be well below that.
“We’re looking at sort of low to mid teens,” she said. “So we’re going to be anywhere from sort of five to six degrees below normal for the rest of the week.”
She says while precipitation and fluctuating weather are standard for this time of year, we may have to wait a bit longer for consistent mild conditions.
“So there’s still a lot of cold air, especially in parts of the north, that can come in and bring us down to cooler temperatures than I guess a lot of people would like at this time of year,” she said.
As for the remainder of the month, Vaswani says there are currently no clear indications of major differences in temperature or precipitation from normal.
“We’re actually looking at an equal chance of temperatures being above or below normal,” she said.
