A week ago, southwestern Ontario was breaking records for cold. But on Thursday, Environment Canada said the region broke records for warm weather.
Both London and Chatham-Kent snapped old records set in 1925 when the temperature climbed to 11 C and 12.5 C respectively on Thursday evening. The old record for Chatham was 8 C, and for London, 4.4 C.
Windsor both did and did not break a record. Environment Canada Meteorologist Peter Kimball told Blackburn News it depended on where in the city you were.
"At the airport, yesterday we hit 12.6 C -- in 2017, we hit 11.9 C," he said. "If you looked at other sites in the area, at Kings College in 1920, it was 16 C. In Riverside, in 2017 it was 13 C. So, if you want to be technical yes, there was an airport record, but for the Windsor area, no."
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The wild swings in temperature may sound unusual, and Kimball admitted it does not happen a lot, but there is a precedent.
"If you look at today [Friday] for example, the highest temperature was 11.4 C in 1990 which means that in 1990 there was some warm air," he explained. "You can always find years where this kind of thing happens."
Kimball said flurries are in the forecast for Friday, Sunday, and Monday, but the next big system is not anticipated until Monday night or Tuesday morning. As for how much snow that will bring, he insisted it is just too early to predict.