Yesterday’s snowfall was the biggest single-day snowstorm in Toronto history
Toronto reportedly received up to 56 centimetres. We rounded up some of the city’s wildest vortex videos
The results are in, and yesterday’s massive snowfall set a new single-day record, according to measurements recorded around the city.
At Pearson International Airport, CP24’s meteorologist, Bill Coulter, reported that Toronto received 46 centimetres during Sunday’s storm. The previous single-day record there was 36.8 centimetres, back in 1966. According to Environment Canada, 56 centimetres of snow fell at Billy Bishop.
If you were bold enough to venture outside, you’ve seen for yourself what that much snow looks like. And if you weren’t, we’ve assembled a variety of other people’s videos to show you.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
