Struggling with the heat? It’s not just you as summer days above 30 C spike

Amid ongoing heat waves, cities like Toronto, Montreal and Halifax have seen more days above 30 C than normal, some far surpassing their 2024 numbers.

Parts of Canada are starting to exit the latest crushing heat wave of the summer.

And if this summer has felt particularly brutal for you, you’re not alone — data shows multiple cities across Canada have already surpassed their normal number of days above 30 C.

Halifax, Toronto and Montreal are among those that have seen more days above that threshold than they normally do, while roughly 51 daily heat records were broken across the country on Monday as temperatures in many regions soared into the mid-30s C, according to Environment Canada.

Global News chief meteorologist Anthony Farnell says multiple heat waves and long-lasting ones is becoming a new normal.

“We’ve always had heat waves, that’s nothing new; it’s the duration,” he said.

“The fact that it’s not just a two- to four-day stretch of hot weather, it is lasting longer than typical and that leads to more drought and it can sometimes lead to extremes like we’re seeing now across the East.”

In Halifax, for example, there have been seven days so far this summer where the temperature has surpassed 30 C.

It might not seem like much, but Farnell said it’s higher than the five seen last year, and above the normal number of days above 30 C, which is about three.