Currently in Toronto — January 11th, 2023
The weather, currently.
The above seasonal trend continues. Expect cloudy skies tomorrow morning with a wake-up temperature near -2°C, feeling like -9°C with the wind chill. We will sit at the freezing mark for much of the day, with the temperature actually climbing to 2°C by late day. Dress for a windchill of -4°C. There will be some scattered wet flurries, possibly freezing drizzle at times. Nothing significant, but it could make walkways and some roads icy. The wind will be from the NE 20-40km/h and the UV index will be 1 or low.
I am tracking another Colorado Low that will start to move in overnight tomorrow. This will bring lots of rain across the region for Thursday with heavy snow in parts of cottage country. More on that tomorrow.
Wednesday night: cloudy with scattered snow showers and mild temperatures - the low is 2°C.
What you need to know, currently.
In the US, 3.3 million adults — or more than 1.3 percent of the adult population — were displaced by climate disasters in the past year, according to The Household Pulse Survey. Hurricanes were responsible for more than half of the forced relocations, according to a US Census Bureau survey.
More than 1.9 million people were displaced by hurricanes; 665,000 people were displaced by flooding, about 660,000 from fires, and more than 320,000 from tornadoes.
Indiana, Maine, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma are the states with the lowest rates of adults being displaced by disasters, while Florida and Louisiana were the states with the highest rates of displacement. In Florida — which was bombarded by both Hurricane Ian and Nicole in the fall — almost 1 million people, or about one in 17 adult residents, were displaced. More than 409,000 people, or almost one in eight residents were displaced in Louisiana, as residents continued to deal with the impacts of 2021’s Hurricane Ida.
However, the displacement wasn’t equal across different incomes. About 22 percent of displaced adults had a reported household income of less than $25,0000 a year, compared to 17.4 percent of the overall US population.
More than a third of those displaced were out of their homes for a week. About one in six persons, which is more than 543,000 people, never returned home.
—Aarohi Sheth
What you can do, currently.
