Here's what the next month of summer weather will look like in Ontario

The forecast for the next month of Canada's summer has just landed, and Ontario is in for some scorching temperatures that will be hottest along parts of its southern border.

The Weather Network is anticipating the remainder of July to "really live up to its reputation" as the hottest time of year this year, with thermometers surging above normal across most of the country, and well above normal in select areas.

The lower halves of Alberta and Saskatchewan — including around Edmonton and Regina — are in for a scorching few weeks, along with a sliver of northwestern Ontario near Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie, and southern Ontario near Windsor.

While TWN said in a blog post on Friday that while the heat will largely be focused around the Prairies, "it will shift into Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada at times" in an alternating pattern that'll mean no one in the country will have to bear sky-high temps for too long.

Environment Canada's latest extended forecast, too, shows a high probability of hotter-than-average conditions throughout Ontario between July and September, especially in the centre of the province.

Amid the extreme warm-up, most of Ontario will see the season's standard levels of precipitation, with the exception of the very north of the province (near Moosonee), where more active thunderstorms will dominate, albeit with regular breaks between the rainy days.

As far as the GTA, this far out, it's hard to tell, as summer storms tend to be unpredictable and quite all over the place.

"While thunderstorms will be more frequent across the [Eastern half of the country], due to the muggy conditions and occasional cold fronts, there will be dry spells and localized areas could miss out on the storms and turn rather dry," TWN's meteorologists write.

The Toronto area will be getting a strong hit of that aforementioned July heat this weekend, with a heat warning on deck for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with temperatures feeling like a blazing 40 C. Further north, on the other hand, thunder, lightning, and even tornado watches abound as we head into Friday evening.