Sweater weather's on hold in Waterloo region as hot and sunny days expected this long weekend
CBC
The last long weekend of summer has arrived and with it, hot and sunny weather.
The Environment Canada forecast says temperatures are expected to reach a high of 30 C on Monday and the heat is expected to last through to Wednesday.
It comes after a cooler August, where no days cracked 30 C. The average for the month was just below 24 C.
Monica Vaswani, a warning preparedness meteorologist, said fluctuating temperatures are normal for this time of the year.
"The reason that we're going to be getting the warmer conditions next week is because we have a ridge of high pressure or basically a big high that's going to sit over eastern United States and it's just going to pump up tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico," she said.
"We do get sort of this clash of fall and summer at this time of year."
She said the temperature will start dropping again after Wednesday when a cold front is expected to move through the area.
"That's probably when you can see temperatures cool down a little bit," she said.
Normal highs for September overall are expected to be about 20 C on average for in Kitchener-Waterloo. she said, although people can expect temperatures above that for at least the first two weeks of September.
Vaswani said people going outside this long weekend should remember to drink lots of water and find shade wherever possible to get out of the heat.
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