Sure, it's January, and it's Canada, but temperatures from Manitoba eastward today will test the will of anyone heading outdoors.
In Winnipeg, with the temperature at –32 C early Thursday morning (feeling like –41 C), the afternoon high is expected to soar to a bone-chilling –26 C afternoon.
A man jumps into a hole cut in the ice on the Ottawa River during the annual Great Canadian Chill polar bear dip in Ottawa on New Year's Day. (Chris Wattie/Reuters)
"In Ontario and Quebec today, the big story is the cold, with either a wind chill warning or special weather statement (regarding the extreme cold) blanketing most of both provinces this morning," CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland reports.
Wind chill warnings extend as far south as Kitchener-Waterloo and east through the Durham Region and Kingston in Ontario, and into southern Quebec.
Wind chill values Thursday morning range from the –20s and –30s in southern Ontario to the –40s and even –50 to the north.
Southern Ontario was dealing with snow falling from the Windsor and Sarnia area through to the Niagara Region and as far north as downtown Toronto, where it was likely to slow commuters returning to work after the New Year's holiday.
The Canadian Automobile Association's southern Ontario branch said it expects the number of calls because of dead batteries to double today.
In southern Quebec, Montreal felt like –38 at Trudeau International Airport on Thursday morning.
In New Brunswick, wind chill values ranged from –30 C to –40 C at 7 a.m. ET, and wind chill warnings extended across the province.
Also Thursday morning, Prince Edward Island was facing wind chill warnings, making it feel like below –30 C in Charlottetown.
In addition to cold temperatures, Nova Scotia was preparing for blizzard conditions as a winter storm gathers force Thursday night (the same system that is affecting Ontario now).
In St. John's, the forecast held out the hope of clear skies and a high of –15 C, rising to –8 on Friday. Still, it felt like –30 C at St. John's Airport on Thursday morning and wind chill warnings have been issued for 20 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Fortunately, most of the hundreds of thousands of customers in Central and Eastern Canada who lost power during the ice storm of 10 days ago have had their electricity restored.
Ontario Hydro says fewer than 500 customers remain in the dark.
NB Power says about 70 customers who lost power more than a week ago are still without power, while another 1,000 lost their power early today. Hydro Quebec's website says about 5,000 had no power as of 8 a.m. ET.
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