{"id":523548,"date":"2026-03-09T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:03:10","slug":"toronto-broke-warm-temperature-record-for-march-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523548\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto broke warm temperature record for March 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Record-breaking warm temperatures in parts of Ontario over the weekend, along with rain, have caused problems on some of the province\u2019s road network, Environment Canada says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A weather summary from the agency says the temperature at the Toronto airport reached a high of 17.6 Celsius on Saturday, breaking an old record for March 7 of 17.2 C that was set in 1860.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It says a weather station in the St. Catherine\u2019s area recorded a high temperature on Saturday of 20.3 degrees, while further north in Wiarton, more than 40 millimetres of rain was recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A low-pressure system tracked over Ontario on Saturday, bringing snow and rain to northeastern sections of the province and rain, fog and mild temperatures to southern Ontario. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It led to significant snow melt and reports of ponding on roads in several areas, and Environment Canada says sections of Bruce Road 7 were reported to have been washed out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The weather agency says dense fog also led to accidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Record-breaking warm temperatures in parts of Ontario over the weekend, along with rain, have caused problems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,11867,3302,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-523548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-ontario-quebec","11":"tag-toronto","12":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523548","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=523548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}