Living Did You Know Living General Toronto heat wave comes close to hottest March day on recordToronto heat wave comes close to hottest March day on record
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The day the heat record for March was set, Toronto was preoccupied with matters in Berlin.
It was March 28, 1945. Headlines proclaimed Hitler’s defeat speech was days away and Stalin’s tanks were inside Austria. In Toronto, the heat peaked at 25.6C, the hottest March day on the books at Pearson since record-keeping began in 1937. The following year, on the same day, the record was matched. On Thursday, Toronto came within a fraction with a daytime high of 25.5.
On that unseasonably warm 1945 day, ballerinas in knee-length skirts and some “itinerant Royal Navy lads” embraced “the balmy spring air to gambol out of doors” in High Park, the Star reported.
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So hot that more than 7,000 temperature records have been shattered, sometimes by 30, 40, even 50 degrees. So hot that the cherry blossoms are out in Washington D.C., a month before normal.
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