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David Phillips Sept. 21 Environment Canada Climatologist David Phillips speaks with CP24 on Sept. 21. <\/p>\nWhile this summer may have been one to remember with extended periods of heat and humidity in the Greater Toronto Area followed by more comfortable conditions over the past few weeks, the fall will kick off with much of the same, says David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cFall is still has those kind of warm days and comfortable nights and the colour change season. So I think we still have a lot of good weather to brag about and boast about and bless in the next few weeks ahead, and that\u2019s what the models say,\u201d said Phillips, who spoke with CP24\u2019s Melissa Duggan on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think we\u2019re not going to have to pay for it because we had such a warm summer. No, no, no, fall is going to continue to give to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fall, which is officially set to begin at 2:19 p.m. on Monday, will see similar conditions than what we\u2019ve seen as of late in the area, although on average it will be around seven degrees cooler in October than in September, Phillips noted. November, he said, will be another six degrees cooler.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo by mid November, we\u2019re going to drop 13 degrees and still call it normal. It\u2019s not as if it\u2019s going to be, you know, muscle shirt and tank top weather, it\u2019s going to be jacket weather and a little heavier garments,\u201d he said, adding that while the first frost is typically seen around Oct. 9, last year it didn\u2019t come until the end of November.<\/p>\n
David Phillips Sept. 21 Environment Canada Climatologist David Phillips speaks with CP24 on Sept. 21. <\/p>\n
Reflecting on the Summer of 2025, Phillips said it was one that seemingly \u201ccame later and left early.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to wait till almost the last week of June before we started complaining about the heat and humidity. And people thought: \u2018Was this going to be the year without summer?\u2019 and then (there were) 55 days, all nicely packaged there, and late June, July, and up to the first couple of weeks in August. Wow, we had some excruciatingly warm temperatures, and then about the middle of August, it sort of went away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
During that time frame, Phillips, a self-described \u201cfall guy, said there were 24 days when the temperature was above 30 C, which he called the \u201coptimum mark of a hot day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally would see maybe 16 or 17 of those,\u201d he said, noting that this summer we saw twice as many tropical nights that other years. <\/p>\n
\u201cThose are nights above 20. And even, Melissa, temperatures just touching 35 or going a little bit above, we would see maybe one of those every two years. We had five of those suckers, and then, along with lots of humidity.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said this summer will be remembered as the \u201csummer of summers for some or too much summer,\u201d for others, as the \u201clazy, hazy, crazy days of summer\u201d brought waves of heat along with mostly dry and occasionally hazy, and even some smoky, conditions. <\/p>\n
Phillips noted that the conditions people in the GTA saw this summer could be a foreshadow of what it might be like in the region in 2050, except there could be up to 90 days of heat and humidity.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it has absolutely been just so comfortable the last month that I think people are saying, you know, they like this kind of weather. No heat on, no air conditioning on. It\u2019s not costing us any money. \u2026 I\u2019m not going to give it a perfect 10 this summer, but I think it was pretty remarkable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Today, the last full day of summer, saw temperatures in the low 20s, feeling closer to 25 C, with showers expected to move in this evening and a chance of some thunderstorm activity overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While this summer may have been one to remember with extended periods of heat and humidity in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-160486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}