{"id":380693,"date":"2026-01-01T03:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380693\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:21:06","slug":"toronto-will-see-bitter-cold-on-dec-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380693\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto will see bitter cold on Dec. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Revellers will be greeted by frigid conditions and blowing snow in Toronto when they ring in the New Year on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Environment Canada is calling for a high of -3 C on New Year\u2019s Eve but it will feel much colder than that throughout the day. When factoring in the wind chill, the city will feel like -13 today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">By tonight, the temperature will drop to a low of -15 C, feeling closer to -20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re celebrating New Year\u2019s outdoors this year, bundle up,\u201d CP24 Meteorologist Bill Coulter said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAt midnight, it will be about -11 C, feeling (like) -18.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/?zoom=8&amp;center=43.69895657,-79.36282141\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/?zoom=8&amp;center=43.69895657,-79.36282141\">Environment Canada had issued a \u201cyellow warning\u201d<\/a> for snow squalls in Toronto this New Year\u2019s Eve, with up to five centimetres of snowfall expected tonight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The weather is playing a factor in the delay of some flights going through Toronto Pearson Wednesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/navcanada\/status\/2006504450626560035?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/navcanada\/status\/2006504450626560035?s=20\">according to NAV Canada<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur team is moving aircraft safely, and as quickly as possible,\u201d NAV Canada said in a social media post, urging travellers to check the status of their flights with their respective airlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More bitterly cold temperatures are on the way on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The national weather agency is calling for a high of -6 on Jan. 1, feeling like -26 in the morning and -12 in the afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cold conditions have prompted the City of Toronto to open two additional warming centres today, including one at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/community-people\/housing-shelter\/homeless-help\/toronto-warming-centres\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/community-people\/housing-shelter\/homeless-help\/toronto-warming-centres\/\">Cecil Community Centre and another at the Jimmie Simpson Recreation Centre.<\/a> Those surge warming centres will open at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and the five other warming centre that are already open will continue to operate during the cold snap. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revellers will be greeted by frigid conditions and blowing snow in Toronto when they ring in the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-380693","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\/380693","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=380693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}