Toronto breaks 65-year-old temperature record [Video]

The temperature in Toronto was so unseasonably warm on Tuesday that it broke a 65-year-old record.

The temperature reached 22.5 C at Pearson International Airport by 10 a.m., surpassing the previous high for Nov. 5 of 20 C in 1959.

Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips told CP24 that by 2 p.m., the temperature reached 23.4 C.

“It smashed the previous record in Toronto,” Phillips said. “We were warmer than Nashville, Tennessee and a lot of Georgia today.”

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Phillips said seeing this weather “really shocked” him, as these temperatures are more typical for September.

“We’ve never seen a temperature in Toronto warmer, and any year, in the last 87 years, after this date,” the climatologist said. “So, in other words, any time after November the fifth or all of December, never a warmer temperature than Toronto got today.”

Phillips added that the evening’s weather is also uncharacteristically warm, as it …