TORONTO – It’s April, but that doesn’t mean that it feels like spring, especially if you live in northern Ontario.
On Wednesday morning, several record lows were broken across the region as cold Arctic temperatures descended.
In Sault Ste. Marie, residents woke up to a temperature of -16.1 C, shattering the previous record of -8.9 C set in 1947.
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In North Bay, a new low of -17.5 C was recorded, breaking the previous record of -12.7 C in 1980.
But it was Timmins where it was the coldest: it was -25.3 C Wednesday morning, which broke the old record of -17.3, also set in 1980.
The good news is that temperatures will be rising steadily over the next few days, with a high of 14 C by Sunday.
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