Posted on 10/06/2007 7:00:19 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Summer Refuses To Fall By MERITA ILO The Canadian Press Published Saturday October 6th, 2007 Appeared on page A1
TORONTO - People across Eastern Canada will be adding the unusual warm weather to the list of things they'll be thankful for this Thanksgiving long weekend.
With temperatures in some areas in Ontario expected to reach as high as 30 Celsius, holiday travellers are packing up T-shirts and shorts instead of warm jackets and scarves.
"This is record-breaking," David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said Friday.
"We've never seen it in 150 years of weather keeping, to have it so warm, so late in the year."
In Toronto, the temperature registered 24 C on Friday and were expected to reach a high of 29 C and a low of 16 C on Saturday. On this day last year, the temperature was 13 C.
"At this time of the year last year, parts of Niagara Peninsula were buried up to their hips in snow, and what we're seeing now is just summer living on," said Phillips.
The late change of seasons in a country known for its brutally cold winters has weather watchers shaking their heads.
Phillips said that while fall has already arrived in the West, it is nowhere to be seen in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.
"It's probably one of the longest summers ever. And now to go another long weekend, the last one until Christmas, this is clearly bonus time," said Phillips.
The late summer mood was nowhere more obvious than in Toronto on Friday afternoon, with shoppers and tourists strolling the city's downtown streets in T-shirts and shorts. Diners enjoyed outdoor eating as most pubs and restaurants haven't removed their patio furniture yet.
"I've never seen a year with such dry and sunny, weather-free weekends. There doesn't seem to be any end in sight," an enthusiastic Phillips told The Canadian Press by telephone from Edmonton.
But don't be fooled, because winter hasn't been cancelled yet, said Phillips.
He reassured snow-loving Canadians in the East that they are likely to see the first snowfall and frost before the end of October.
Enjoy it while it lasts, he said, because you "know what's ahead."
With files from Chris Wickens.
Low of 35 in North LA County last night.
Welcome to the end of the Ice Age.
Low of 35 in North LA County last night.
Highs in the low 90s here in Central Ohio. Not unheard of, but definitely above average.
Yes, but they want you to think it’s global warming caused by man, so they can tax you to death. It may indeed be global warming, caused by the sun!
Leni
No doubt. The 1930's saw far warmer temps here than we have today. We've only broken the record one day in the past two weeks of unusually warm temps.
90 deg in central Conn. today — dry as toast, too. Walking across the lawn is like walking thru spilled potato chips. Sorry I ever doubted you, Al Gore. </s>
They deserve it, I've lived through their winters.
I love global warming!! now I don’t have to retire to the South...basking in the sun in the East is heaven on earth!
I’m here in southern Michigan but I suspect we’ll see the first snowfall around Halloween just like most years.
I read an editorial in my local newspaper claiming that the leaves should have changed by now. I don’t have the heart to write to the editor and explain that the color change of the leaves has little or nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with amount of sunlight.
It makes it hard trying to decide about locking in oil price. A warm Fall helped keep prices down last year and I got stuck paying .20 more per gallon than the actual price.
Gore’s Fault! Dims will blame this on we know who.
Camel ping
I lived in Vernon, CT for three years. Still remember hurricane Bob in 1991. That year was crazy hot. I was at the Statehouse October 5, 1991 to tell Weiker what I thought about the state income tax proposal. Damn Marie Herbst!
High next wed and thurs of 62.
It just doesn't seem like fall, everyone is still wearing shorts, running air conditioners, barbecuing, and swimming... I don't believe this global warming nonsense, but this is sure a weird weather pattern for our area.
Cold, wet and rainy in the NW.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Packers-Bears game is supposed to be in the mid-80s tomorrow.
I didn’t get any peaches or pears on my trees this year due to our supercooled May.
We never even had much of a summer in the Pacific Northwest, and now we’ve gone straight into winter.
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