Temperature hits 36.3 Celsius which with humidity you feel it like 41C. Such a high temperature is very rare in Toronto.
Toronto has only been that hot once, when it reached 38.3 C on August 25, 1948 according to measurements at Pearson airport.
Factor in the humidex and Thursday was felt like somewhere in the mid to high 40s.
If it doesn’t quite beat 38.3 Friday July 6,2012 could still be the hottest July day on record, beating out the 37.6 C high on July 7, 1988. Temperature records at Pearson have been kept since 1937.
A temperature record was also broken on Wednesday when the city reached a high of 36.3 C, shattering the old record of 36.1 C set on that day in 1955.
The extreme heat is caused by a high-pressure system sitting over the city that’s warding off weather and keeping the jet stream well to the north.
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