Seasonal today, rain move in for Tomorrow

Today's Forecast for Hamilton:

Clouds mixing with sunshine. Light winds.

High 19°C

Skies were supposed to be sunny today, however a good cloud cover is preventing any sunshine from getting through. The day started out sunny, but clouded over late in the morning. It was a very cool early morning with 6.8°C reported in Hamilton. Winds are fairly light today, but things will soon change.

Clouds will likely move out of the region later in the afternoon and early in the evening. 19°C can generally be expected across the area.

Here's a look at reported temperatures across the region yesterday:

 Toronto............. 21°   10­°
Hamilton........... 20°    8°
London............. 19°    9°
St. Catharines... 20°    10°
Kitchener.........  19°    7°
Muskoka..........  17°    6°    


An area of rain approaching from the west will move into the regions overnight and into tormorrow morning. There is the chance of some thunderstorm activity as well, especially around the western end of lake Ontario and eastern shores of Lake Erie. Cool easterly winds will also be gusting up to 50km/h at times tomorrow making for a really dreary and wet day.

Warmer air is expected to move in for the weekend. When I say warmer, im just talking about low 20's, which is normal for this time of year.

Long range trends are seeing generally seasonal conditions through early next week, then very cool temperatrures begin to move into the area by next weekend. That is very far off and things could change, however that is what the computer models are currently seeing.

Tropics remain very active. Hurricane IGOR was just 1mph shy of Cat 5 status at 155mph sustained winds last night. It has since decreased to 135mph, but these fluctuations are normal with strong hurricanes as they undergo eyewall replacements cycles.
Hurricane Julia underwent some rapid intensification last night and is now a Category 4 Hurricane with winds sustatined at 135mph. This makes it the second time in history since record keeping began that there were 2 Category 4 storms simutaneously in the Atlantic Basin. Julia also set a record being the furtherst east Category 4 storm.