WATCH: Your full Skytracker weather forecast for Toronto and the GTA for January 21, 2014
TORONTO – A wind chill warning has ended for the City of Toronto but an extreme cold weather alert remains in place as temperatures continue to hover around -15 degrees Celsius and below on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s expected high will be -17 degrees Celsius with a night time low of -23. The temperatures are expected to remain in between -15 to -20 until mid-week.
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An alert is called when there is an increased danger to homeless people due to extreme winter weather conditions and when the temperature falls to -15 degrees Celsius, without the wind chill.
Environment Canada warned that with the wind chill, temperatures could feel like – 33 degrees Celsius overnight and into Wednesday morning.
READ MORE: Wind chill: how it’s measured and how it affects you
A wind chill alert has been issued for much of southern Ontario including the Greater Toronto Area.
So far this winter, city officials have called a total of eight extreme cold weather alerts.
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Toronto’s alert allows shelters to relax existing service restrictions for the homeless and permit them to stay at the shelter longer.
The City of Toronto also adds 26 extra spaces to each shelter, as well as adding overnight street ourtreach support in the downtown core and offering free TTC tokens at some drop-ins so people can use public transit to get to shelters.
Officials say the alert is in effect until further notice.
A list of shelters people can get TTC tokens from
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