Weather summary for all of southern Ontario and
The national Capital region
Issued by Environment Canada Toronto at 11:05 PM EST Monday 1
December 2008.

 A good taste of winter for parts of southern Ontario.
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==weather event discussion==

 A rapidly deepening low pressure area raced from Illinois across
Lake Huron into central Québec. This disturbance has brought a mixed
bag of snow, freezing rain, rain and ice pellets to southern Ontario
ranging from 1 to 2 cm of snow, rain and ice pellets just north of
the lower Great Lakes to 15 to 20 cm over the Dundalk Highlands and
around 5 cm of heavy wet snow and ice pellets from Kitchener to
Barrie. Areas from Parry Sound to Algonquin Park generally received
more snow and less rain reporting anywhere from 10 to 15 cm. A
maximum snowfall of 28 cm was reported from Wiarton.

 The table below shows the snowfall amounts received as of 11 PM.


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location           snowfall amounts     past weather

Dorchester            10.2 cm               snow
London                 6.4 cm               wet snow
Kincardine              13 cm               snow
Southampton             15 cm               snow
Wiarton                 28 cm               snow
Thornbury               12 cm               snow
Balaclava               18 cm               snow
Coe hill                12 cm               snow
Powassan              14.8 cm               snow
Caledon                 19 cm               snow
Stratford               10 cm               wet snow
Kitchener                5 cm               wet snow
Waterloo                 8 cm               wet snow
Fergus                  13 cm               wet snow
Barrie                   5 cm               wet snow
Midland                  5 cm               wet snow
Coldwater              6.2 cm               wet snow
Muskoka               5-10 cm EST'd         wet snow
Haliburton            11.4 cm               snow
Parry Sound             15 cm EST'd         snow
Chalk river           12.6 cm               snow
Coe hill (S Bancroft) 15.5 cm               snow
Ottawa                  trace       7 hours freezing rain, wet snow
Trenton                  2 cm               wet snow
Kaladar                  4 cm               wet snow
Peterborough             1 cm               freezing rain, wet snow

Please note that this summary contains the observations at the time
of broadcast and does not constitute an official and final report of
the weather events or the high impact events attributed to the
weather events.