5.8°C Sunny 
TORONTO - Shorts and sandals are the order of the day in Central Canada and the Maritimes as people there swelter under a heat wave.
Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson says temperature records have been smashed in several cities over the past few days.
A warm and humid air mass that moved into Ontario on Sunday has spread to cover southern and northeastern Ontario, southern Quebec and much of the Maritimes.
Coulson says a large area of high pressure entrenched south of the Great Lakes is acting as a big heat pump, bringing up the air mass from the American deep south.
He says some relief is in store as a new air mass arrives, bringing cooler temperatures as we head into the Labour Day weekend.
While Toronto is not expected to break any records today, it did set a record on Tuesday when the mercury reached 33.7 C at Pearson airport, smashing the old mark of 33.3 C for Aug. 31, set back in 1973.
