Weather summary for all of southern Ontario and
The national Capital region
Issued by Environment Canada Toronto at 7:55 PM EST Wednesday 5
November 2008.

 Indian summer warmth sets a plethora of record highs.
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==weather event discussion==

  The summerlike weather continues as southwesterly winds
Around a large high pressure ridge stalled over the Appalachians
continues to draw up warm air from the southern states.

  Quite a few new record maximum temperatures were set today as
Shown in the table below. The warmest locale was Collingwood with a
summerlike 22.7 degrees.

  This is also the first time on record in the Kitchener area that
two consecutive days with highs reaching 20 c or more have been
observed in November.

  The warm air and sunshine will remain for one more day on Thursday
before a cold front swings through and brings a significant cooling
trend to much more seasonable temperatures and late fall weather
conditions by the weekend.


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Location     new record          old record       year

Windsor         21.2                21.1          1978
London          19.1                19.1          1978 (tie)
Kitchener       20.1                19.5          1978
Markham         18.8                17.6          1999
Coldwater       21.5                20.0          1978
Collingwood     22.7                18.9          1903
Peterborough    19.5                19.3          1987
Petawawa        18.7                15.6          1981
Muskoka         20.6                18.9          1956
Sudbury         18.4                15.6          1948
Sault Ste Marie 20.1                16.8          1978
Wawa            19.0                15.0          1956
Chapleau        18.6                17.2          1938
Earlton         18.6                17.0          1978
Timmins         19.8                14.4          1956
Kapuskasing     17.6                15.0          1948