It's going to feel like 31 C in Toronto this week

Toronto temperatures are soaring and it's soon going to feel like 31 C in the city.

The weather forecast is calling for a scorching Thursday as Toronto reaches record highs for seasonal temperatures.

On Wednesday, temperatures topped 26 C which broke the previous April 12 record of 25.8 C set in 2001.

On April 13, start making plans to visit your favourite Toronto ice cream spot or perhaps the newest one as it's going to feel like 31 C according to the Weather Network.

Temperatures are expected to dip to 24 C on Friday before cooling off around 18 C through the weekend.

Lead photo by

Latest in City

Ontario is home to a weird gravity anomaly where things weigh less

Toronto's weirdest Google Maps attractions include mouse theatre and random cat

What Queens Quay used to look like in Toronto

Over 170kg of cocaine worth $4.5 million allegedly seized from Toronto condo

Ontario jail from the 1850s could reopen after sitting abandoned almost a decade

Canada's second-tallest structure is rapidly being demolished in Ontario

Stretch of Yonge Street will be redirected long-term for new subway station

CN Tower about to drop off list of the world's 10 tallest structures