Where’s the snow in Toronto this season, and are we behind? – The Weather Network

Not only have we been unusually warm for the past 30 or 60 days—but we’ve seen above-seasonal temperatures across almost the entire country for the past 90 days. This type of pattern has been more conducive to wearing shorts than grabbing snow shovels.

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Pearson International Airport averages around 9.3 cm of snow during a typical November. Last year, we only saw 3.2 cm of snow at the airport—and that total is a whopping zilch so far this month.

Other seasons have had it better in the snow department.

The earliest we’ve ever seen 5+ cm of snow at Pearson was a storm that hit on October 21, 1969. Despite this year’s unfavourable pattern, November is no stranger to big snowfalls in southern Ontario. The earliest 20+ cm storm struck on November 24, 1950, when 30.5 cm of snow fell at the airport.

The outlook isn’t looking too good through the middle of the month, either.

Temperatures are likely to remain warmer-than-normal for the next seven to ten days as a renewed ridge of high pressure dominates most of eastern North America.