Planning to hit the town on New Year’s Eve? Don’t forget your umbrellas, as Toronto is expected to ring in 2025 with rainy weather.
The final day of the year is forecasted to begin with a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 3 C, Environment Canada reports, with a 60 per cent chance of rain or flurries by the afternoon.
Meteorologist Barbara Lapido says Torontonians can expect precipitation for most of Tuesday afternoon, and as the ball drops into the new year, temperatures will too.
“As soon as we approach midnight, we can start having a little bit of a mix between rain and snow, as temperatures start to drop around zero,” Lapido explained to Now Toronto on Monday.
“In the morning of Wednesday, that will end up changing to snow. So, we will have some periods of snow during Wednesday, pretty much all of New Year’s Day.”
The first night of the new year is expected to be a cold one, with a low of -2 C and a 60 per cent chance of flurries.
Lapido says that the Wednesday night flurries could last until Thursday, but very light accumulation is expected, with not much more than 2 cm of snow.
Those trends are expected to continue into the beginning of 2025, with a 40 per cent chance of flurries expected daily until Sunday and temperatures below zero. Lapido says the small chance of flurries is due to the winter weather happening in the north of the province.
“There’s some lake-effect snow moving on from the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron, so some of that might reach a little bit into GTA,” Lapido said.
“But that’s why the chance is low, because the main event is not going to be in the GTA.”
By the weekend, Lapido says temperatures will steadily drop, with a high of around -4 C on Sunday and low of -10 C. While the weather change seems drastic compared to above zero temperatures only days prior, she says the temperature is returning to seasonal averages in January.
“This week was abnormally warm. Temperatures were above seasonal, but now slowly, we are reaching back to seasonal temperatures for January, especially,” she said.
