Sault Ste. Marie and other Ontario communities melt through heat records Monday

WEATHER SUMMARY
ENVIRONMENT CANADA
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Weather summary for Ontario and the national capital region issued by Environment Canada at 9:57 p.m. EDT on Monday, 17 September, 2018.

Discussion:

A few new record maximum temperatures were set for Sept. 17 as midsummer weather continued to hang on across parts of northeastern Ontario. 

Sault Ste. Marie 
New record maximum temperature 29.4°C
Previous record of 28.3°C set in 1946 

Chapleau 
Maximum temperature 27.0°C
Close to record of 27.7°C set in 2017

Timmins
Maximum temperature 28.8°C 
Close to record of 29.3°C set in 2015

Sudbury 
New record maximum temperature 28.7°C
Previous record of 27.2°C set in 2015 

Petawawa
New record maximum temperature 28.8°C
Previous record of 27.6°C set in 2017 

Ottawa Airport 
Maximum temperature 29.5°C 
Close to record of 30.0°C set in 1942

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