Currently in Toronto — March 16, 2023

The weather, currently.

Another major system is moving in, but along with it a warmer flow — so it will be a rain event. Thursday morning starts off under a mix of sun and cloud with a wake-up temperature near -2°C feeling like -7°C with the wind chill.

We will see variable skies for much of the day, at times more clouds than the sun but it will be dry until late evening. The high 6°C degrees! The wind will be light from the SW 15-30km/h.

Thursday night: Cloudy with a rainshower beginning in the late evening, it will likely mix with some wet flurries in the north end of the city before changing back to rain by dawn Friday morning.

Side note: Turing much colder and blustery for the weekend. There will be intense lake effect snow bands southeast of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. —Anwar Knight

What you need to know, currently.

Today, we shared a story from Grist, about how climate change is making atmospheric rivers in California much wetter and more intense. These changing patterns are making flooding along the West Coast significantly worse.

Read the full article here.

How rising temperatures are intensifying California’s atmospheric rivers

As storms get warmer and wetter, California’s flood control system is struggling to keep up with atmospheric rivers.

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What you can do, currently.