Chill, Ontario: Why warm, sunny days are on the way after very cool May [Video]

After a cold, snowy winter followed by a cool start to spring, many Ontarians were hoping for a summer start to June but were forced to keep their winter gear on their torsos Sunday as temperatures fell below 5 C.

“The low temperature of 4.9 C at Pearson airport was the coldest June temperature in the last 20 years,” Global News chief meteorologist Anthony Farnell said. “It was also a chilly start to the day on this June 2nd with mid-single digits across the GTA.

“This comes after a chilly second half of May, which was cooler than the first half of the month. This doesn’t happen very often.”

This is a far cry from just two years ago when the Toronto area experienced record temperatures of 30.9 C and is much closer to the record coldest June 1 which was in 1945, when the temperature fell to of 1.1 …