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Caribbean breezes expected to warm T.O.
awww yea check it out ppl .. lets hope itz this nice when Armin comes to town ... too bad the World Cup games don't happen live in the day tho .. :\
link:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...ol=968793972154
Caribbean breezes expected to warm T.O.
By Josh Rubin
Staff Reporter thestar.com
BERNARD WEIL/Toronto Star file photo
THIS IS THE LIFE: The wave pool at Wild Water Kingdom was a popular place on the dog days of last summer.
If you're getting depressed looking out your window at all the fog and rain we've been getting, don't worry — plenty of sunshine is on the way.
This weekend is shaping up to be a great one, weather-wise. The Toronto area will see temperatures shoot up to almost 30 degrees from Thursday through Sunday, and there won't be a cloud in the sky, according to Environment Canada's Andrea Sale.
``We're not looking at any precipitation at all right now. The probability is zero. It will be a beautiful weekend,'' said Sale.
This sunny, warm weather being called for this weekend could stick around for a while. Last week, Environment Canada released its long-term summer forecast, and it called for a hotter summer than usual.
We can thank a phenomenon weather professionals call the "Bermuda High'' for the nice weather we'll get this summer, says Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips. According to Phillips, that means a high-pressure system will push warm Caribbean air all the way north to Canada.
Remember those stifling days last August? They could be back again.
"It may be a repeat of that really warm, humid weather we had last summer,'' Phillips said, adding temperatures could be a degree-and--half warmer than usual this summer.
Although that doesn't sound like much, Phillips says we'll be doing plenty of sweating.
``People would really feel it if it's a degree or two above normal. Don't forget that's an average for the whole season, which hides a lot of highs and lows. There will be a lot of days over 30,'' he said. The average daily high temperature in summer is 24 degrees in June, 27 in July and 26 in August.
The warm summer being predicted will feel even better because it comes on the heels of a below-average May, when the temperature averaged just over 10 degrees.
We'll also be getting a lot more rain than usual this summer — up to 30 per cent more, Phillips said. That's because the air making its way up to Toronto from the Caribbean will pick up a lot of water along the way, he explained.
"As it comes up through the U.S., it will pick up a lot of moisture from all the crops — corn, tomatoes, you name it. The crops are really green by this time of the year,'' said Phillips.
Just because there will probably be more rain than usual doesn't necessarily mean it will be a miserable summer, he noted.
``If it happens on Tuesday and Wednesday in the middle of the night, people won't notice the rain and they'll say it's a glorious summer. If it happens on a weekend, all of a sudden it's awful,'' said Phillips.
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