Weather

 Other cities in eastern and western Canada laugh at Toronto weather. To be fair they have a point. In generally we are warmer in the winter and have way less snow than almost every major city this side of the Rockies. 

There's an extra expensive neighborhood down town that holds an ice sculpture contest in February. Its great stuff but its also at a spot in the calendar where we often get a thaw. Makes for a nice winter day out but I bet the sculptors get a bit ticked. 

Basically we are right on lake Ontario in the crook of several different wind directions and tend to get missed by most of them. Its a tricky balance. We just happen to be on the right spot. If you want to know what its like being on the wrong spot google Buffalo New York and winter. They really get hit. 

When bad weather doesn't miss us we can have problems. One winter SNOWMAGEDDON hit so hard that the mayor of the time was having serious problems getting everyone to work. He called on the local army for help and got made fun of for doing so. This wasn't really fair. When you have the capacity to move X amount of snow in a day or so, thereby allowing people to get to work, and you have to move XXXX amount of snow; preventing the city from grinding to a halt can make you do some silly sounding things. 

So, its November. Most of the time we don't get anything more than a dusting before now and the end of December when it really does hit. Most of the time isn't all the time though.

Winter is coming.