The Coldest Night of the Year

Bruce Cockburn once sang about "The Coldest Night of the Year". I think he was singing about last night.

After enjoying a mild start to winter, the Greater Toronto Area is in the middle of a cold snap, thanks to a steady stream of Arctic air. The temperature at 8:00 AM was -18 degrees Celsius (0 degrees Fahrenheit), or -28 degrees Celsius (-18 degrees Fahrenheit) with the wind chill factor.
Of course, this being the year it is, we are getting the bone chilling winds even though the temperature of the Great Lakes is above freezing. That's right -- there is no ice on Lake Ontario but there are Arctic air temperatures.

The city of Toronto has issued an extreme cold weather alert and has attempted to get homeless people into shelters. School bus service in some areas is cancelled, and people in general run the risk of being frost-bitten if they expose skin for too long. For the indefinite future, I suspect, there will be a lot of skeptics about global warming in Ontario.