Toronto temperatures about to feel sub-zero for first time this season

It was a brutally hot summer and an unseasonably warm fall in Toronto, but the mercury is finally dropping, and the city is about to experience its first sub-zero-feeling temperatures of the season.

Toronto has only experienced two days of below-seasonal weather so far in October, but due to an upper trough of low atmospheric pressure, temperatures are finally about to dip below seasonal values, just in time for the start of the World Series.

Baseball's biggest stage kicks off in Toronto on Friday evening, and here's hoping the visiting defending champions, the L.A. Dodgers, will be a little thrown by the plummeting temperatures.

Based on The Weather Network's forecast for the coming days, locals may want to dust off their cold-weather wardrobes ahead of the weekend, as chilly conditions are expected to descend over the city just in time for Friday night.

The forecast calling for 1 C overnight Friday, with wind chill making it feel more like -2 C, might trigger a preemptive shiver from readers. But, thankfully, that's about as bad as it will get in the coming days.

Friday's chill will be followed by a low of 2 degrees C overnight Saturday, with temperatures feeling more like -1 C with the wind chill factored in.

The chilly nights will continue with Sunday's overnight temps dropping to 3 C and feeling more like -1 C.

Overnight temperatures will continue to flirt with freezing in the following days, with overnight lows expected to feel like 0 degrees next Tuesday and 1 C next Wednesday and Thursday.

The shifting weather conditions will likely give some locals a bit of temperature whiplash, with the sub-zero-feeling lows coming just a few weeks after summer-like temperatures gave way to cooling fall forecasts.