Arctic Blast Keeps Toronto in a Deep Freeze

A relentless wave of bone-chilling cold is expected to hit the city of Toronto, and the entirety of the city will remain captured through month’s end. You must be thinking about what the probable reason for this would be? It is a Polar Vortex that would completely cloak the Greater Toronto Area.

Information from sources also confirm that the headquarters of Environment Canada based in Quebec have estimated the Toronto’s thermal readings by 8 AM will witness at least -12 C, however the feel would be -21 C coupled with the chilly winds, and after Friday’s sun sets the atmospheric readings for the city would dip to -22 C, lastly the chilly winds will make it feel like it’s –30 C.

Geoff Coulson is a veteran meteorologist having served with the Environment Canada for over 35 years asked the people to take precautionary measures in an interview on Wednesday morning with CP24 “Our ongoing weather story for the coming days, right through the weekend into next week, is going to be colder than normal conditions that we are expecting,”

Coulson also said he noticed and noted down the temperature reading at daybreak on a Saturday-an anticipated to be somewhere around -20 C-he thinks that this is going to be the harshest winter Toronto has ever witnessed since ever, also he added that the seasonal low is -10 C.

George Coulson in an interview added “that the readings in the thermometer will be on the lower (cooler) side during the weekdays, while on the contrary as soon as the weekend starts the temperatures will be on the higher side”.

The role of the Alberta Clipper

The Greater Toronto Area was passed through by an Alberta Clipper in this week itself, as explained by a CP24 meteorologist Bill Coulter it is a breakneck shift in weather conditions, and usually just brings in the frosty cold temperature, but not the snow, as it is moisture-depleted in nature.

Coulter also added that one of the weather traits that could be witnessed in the Albert Clipper, is that the low-pressure spins in the reverse direction, and behaves like a vacuum and sips sub-zero winds over Prairies and the Great Lakes.

He (Coulter) also added that Alberta Clippers does not carry snow at all, but let’s say anywhere between 5-10 centimetres utmost, be that as it may, and it usually pulls in the chilly winds in the downward direction.

If a wobbling polar vortex comes into play, Coulter says the cold air will spill right onto the Great Lakes region.

Lake-effect moderation typically buffers the Arctic air that breezes over southern Ontario and the GTA, according to The Weather Network (TWN). But, TWN adds that there have been so many bouts of Arctic air this winter that significantly cooled lake surface temperatures, cutting the ability to warm the air above.

That Arctic Intrusion is sure to come again because of the Alberta Clipper system that is ushering a snowstorm into the Greater Toronto Area, “Coulter stated. The Bone Chilling wind will go through eastern and central areas of the U.S and North America (Canada) by next week.

What is it actually? An Arctic Intrusion or a Polar Vortex

Polar Vortex could be simply explained as a movement of powerful westerlies that shapes itself in the stratosphere, Coulter further clarifies, and measures around 9-12 miles over south and north poles respectively.

“See it as a skater pulling his arms tightly, and when that is done, they spin faster while staying in a small spot, exactly what happens with ice and cold air, thereby staying near the pole” stated Coulter.

“Whenever it moves, or is disturbed due to warming or heat, it begins wobbling like a top and when it wobbles the polar air, which is very cold, begins going in a downward direction towards the south in the southern latitudes.

According to Coulter, it is more precise to explain this as an Arctic intrusion, due to the polar vortex In Coulter’s view, it’s more accurate to describe this phenomenon as an Arctic intrusion.

Bone-chilling January

YAs a result of the Alberta Clipper system, Coulter said polar air will again visit the Greater Toronto Area on a Wednesday, and this will happen prior to the eastern and central Canada regions chilling down with cold temperatures even more by mid-next week.

It is anticipated that the frigid temperatures are here to stay for the remainder of January, Coulter said the weather reports predict the weather situation will stabilise only when the month of February starts.

The collision of cold and warmer subtropical air through the southerly USA might create a blizzard on Sunday, said Coulter, looking at a couple more weather models of the past, these models indicate that the region could also be impacted by a disastrous storm which later could carry approximately about 10-20 centimetres of snow.

Environment Canada forecasts a high of -12C through Sunday, with continuous snowing till Monday.