If you have to venture out of the house to grab essentials in Toronto today, hold onto your hat (and mask): Environment Canada has just issueda special weather statementfor the city in anticipation of some powerful winds.

The federal weather body is forecasting strong, gusty winds up to 80 km/h Monday afternoon into Monday evening, coming from the west and southwest. It is warning residents to look out for potential flying debris, and maybe even some scattered power outages due to the gales.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT for City of Toronto#GTA(Southern and Eastern ON) for high windspic.twitter.com/7eU8qfCVd7

— Colette Kennedy (@colettetown)April 13, 2020

Other parts of the provinceare seeing similar alertstoday, but things should be dying down by later tonight.

Thecurrent highin Toronto remains a cloudy and wet 17 C, with a chance of rain showersor even flurriesboth tomorrow and Wednesday as temperatures drop down to around 4 C.

Though it does look quite miserable out there at the moment, at least it gives us all the more reason to keep socially distancing and staying indoors, right?