Extreme cold warning for Peterborough and the Kawarthas lifted after mercury dips to -30.8 C

Guests to Jackson Park get some train regardless of the -15 C chilly climate circumstances on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in Peterborough, Ont. Peterborough Public Well being has issued its fifth frostbite alert of the season.

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An excessive chilly warning for Peterborough and the Kawarthas has been lifted by Surroundings Canada after the temperature on the Peterborough Airport plunged to a low of -30.8 C round 4 a.m. Wednesday, feeling extra like -34 C with the wind chill.

Peterborough Public Well being additionally issued a frostbite alert on Tuesday afternoon, the fifth of the season.

Regular temperatures for this time of yr in Peterborough are a excessive of -4 C and a low of -14 C. The chilly snap will proceed by to the tip of the weekend with highs of simply -11 C on Friday and -10 C on Saturday forecast. Some milder climate is predicted by subsequent Tuesday to begin off the month of February.

Monday’s excessive temperature in Peterborough was simply -8 C with a low of -29.7 C, in accordance with Surroundings Canada and it wasn’t significantly better on Tuesday with a excessive of -8.8 C and a low of -29.3 C.

A flood watch that was issued Friday by the Otonabee Area Conservation Authority stays in impact, advising of the potential of flooding from the formation of frazil ice (slush ice) within the Otonabee River and Jackson Creek.

The town introduced Wednesday that One Roof Group Centre, which gives companies for marginalized folks and operates out of St. John’s Anglican Church at 99 Brock St., will likely be open for prolonged hours of service from 8:30 a.m. to midday and three to 9:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday resulting from anticipated chilly temperatures.

A to-go meal is offered between 1 and a pair of p.m. each day, however the centre is closed to drop-in service from midday to three p.m. for the meal preparation and pickup interval to guard the well being and security of the general public, volunteers and workers in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The town’s emergency shelters are open and out there to folks experiencing homelessness who require emergency in a single day shelter:

• YES Shelter for Youth and Households, 705-748-3851, 196 Brock St.

• Brock Mission males’s shelter, 705-748-4766, 120 Murray St.

• Cameron Home girls’s shelter, 705-748-4766, 739 Chemong Rd.

• Overflow Shelter at 210 Wolfe St., in a single day cellphone 705-761-1875

Emergency after-hours companies associated to emergency shelter can be found by social companies by calling 705-926-0096.