Torontonians may have woken up to frost coating their lawns and cars, but by the early afternoon, we’d broken a decade-old high-temperature record.

Environment Canada measured a temperature of 16.6 C at Pearson airport 2 p.m. Saturday, a full 0.3 C higher than the previous highest temperature ever recorded in Toronto on March 12 (16.3 C, recorded in 2006).

And it looks like we may be raising the bar even higher – Environment Canada is forecasting a high of 18 C for Toronto later in the afternoon, although it will likely be closer to 13 C in areas near the lake.

On top of the warmth, Torontonians have been able to soak in the rays, with mainly sunny skies forecasted for all of Saturday.

It’s a far cry from normal seasonal temperatures, which usually max out around 4 C (that’s our overnight low tonight). And it’s an even starker contrast to this day eight years ago, when we had 25 cm of snow on the ground, and in 1948, when Toronto set a record low temperature of -21.7 C.

You might want to get all your outdoor March Break activities done today, though – the clouds start moving back in tomorrow, bringing rain for most of the week and possibly even flurries Friday. A bit of a cool-down is expected to start tomorrow too, with a high of 8 C Sunday and 4 C by the time Friday rolls around.