Environment Canada is out with its synopsis of December weather events and trends.
The government agency is reporting a much warmer month than traditionally expected.
Monthly temperature were highest in the northwest of Ontario and decreased, although remaining
positive, to the southeast of the Province.
It was also drier than normal east of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, but areas from Niagara to Toronto to Ottawa saw slightly above normal precipitation.
That came in the form of a big storm of mixed ice and snowfall December 3rd and 4th in Eastern Ontario.
Volunteers measured 25 cm of snow in Renfrew and 23 cm in Eganville. Before Ottawa International Airport saw 11 cm of snow, it had also reported 12 hours of freezing rain.
There were also 3 warm waves that swept the province, and by the end of the month, all station reported significantly lower snow depths than normal.
Many locations across southern Ontario were snow free with no White Christmas.
For January there are as yet no clear signals for temperatures for the month, other than the suggestion that Northwestern Ontario will be cooler than customary.
By Rick Stow
