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Probably at least part of reason why the 1910s-1950s had such bad summer heat waves was tied to agricultural land use issues. The 1936 heat wave was particularly bad, with the three hottest days in all of Toronto's recorded history happening consecutively (all three days hit 105F). This was also...

In new subdivisions? Because you're not gonna see new homes under $3m south of the QEW.

These are the heat records for Toronto broken down by season (more or less). The 2020s is based on the nearly 3 years of the decade so far, and assumes the the per year rate of records broken for 2020-2022 continues into 2029. There have been 9 daily high records broken in 2020-present, evenly...

Yeah, that's true. Maybe it would be better to describe these as single unit SFH developments in contrast to the tract housing of new subdivisions.

There were issues prior to 4 years ago, but the mismatch between population growth and new housing builds has been significantly worse in the past 4 years. I think the rise in unaffordability was actually worse in the smaller Ontario cities like Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton, Niagara...

Here's the breakdown of the years that the record highs and record lows date to. Given global warming + UHI warming + UHI caused diurnal range reduction, it's not surprised that there are much fewer record lows now than it the past, although the extent to which the record lows are skewed...

Sorry, "record set" may not have been the best way to put it. I meant set and held. There are more temperature records that are still standing today that were set pre-1900 compared to today (in per year terms). As for heat island affecting precipitation, my annual precipitation graph does not...

Here's some stats on weather extremes for Downtown Toronto/Queen's Park. So I looked at the daily records for minimum temperature, maximum temperature, and maximum precipitation. Then counted the number of records that were set for any given year. For example, the record for the most...

It seems Tripetala, Acuminata and Macrophylla all have very large leaves. I guess I'll have to take a closer look in spring when they're flowering.

Southern Ontario has several native vines, although I'd say the two most common ones are Riverbank Grape and Virginia Creeper. The red leaves are Virginia Creeper, whereas the Riverbank Grape turns yellow, and the leaves have fairly different shapes.

American Sycamore is really pretty, I've seen some in Point Pelee and along the Sydenham River (Lambton/Middlesex County). Grows huge and really fast too. Sassafras looks really nice in the fall, but doesn't grow that big and seems to be somewhat short lived (like 20-30 years?). Tulip...

Haven't Alberta's hospitalizations this year been comparable to Quebec's which had like the most extreme measures in the country?

As for the humidity, this data is for Pearson, where the adjacent urbanization/heat island formation occurred more recently (1960-2010 roughly) than in Downtown Toronto. It seems like the absolute humidity has been essentially constant (maybe slightly increasing) but relatively humidity, which...

The diural range was actually increasing a bit during the early part of urbanization (pre-1915). But then during 1920 to 1980 the daytime highs haven't really increased, while the lows increased a fair bit, resulting in a significant decrease in the diurnal range from about 9.5C to 7C...

Mean annual temperature at Queens Park weather station from 1840 to present with 11 year moving average. 1840-1890 were very cool, at least compared to the present. When compared to a smaller city like Guelph, which is actually a touch south of Toronto, Toronto in 1840-1890 was about as warm...

I discovered her on DC++ uwaterloo file sharing back in 2009-2010. The guy who had her music up there only had a few of her songs uploaded though so now that I have Spotify I've been getting into her music more.

Ayria just released a new album a couple months ago. She's a Toronto artist that's been making music since the early 00s but the quality of her music has held up great imo. My favorite albums are Flicker (2005), Plastic Makes Perfect (2013) and this latest album, This Is My Battle Cry (2022).

Months with the highest precipitation totals in Toronto (Downtown) history 1. 1843/09: 248.2mm 2. 1894/05: 238.5mm 3. 1986/09: 217.8mm 4. 1841/07: 206.8mm 5. 1915/08: 206.8mm 6. 1870/06: 205.5mm 7. 1996/09: 202.4mm 8. 1878/09: 195.6mm 9. 1868/05: 195.1mm 10. 1986/08: 191.7mm 11. 2013/07...

Toronto (Downtown) precipitation by year.

I mean they're kinda doing that already. It's called the North Saskatchewan and Bow/Elbow River. AFAIK aqueducts were mainly used because Rome was built on hills so it was easier to bring water down from surrounding mountains than up from the Tiber River? Probably the Tiber was also polluted by...