Motorists around Toronto are advised to slow down this evening as rain and possibly wet snow flurries could make the roads slick.
Drivers to the north of Toronto had to cope with their first exposure to snow-covered roads.
At noon, CTV Toronto meteorologist Tom Brown said viewers lit up his BlackBerry with reports of the white stuff.
"It's snowing in Peterborough. It's snowing in Lindsay. It's snowing in Markham," he said from Black Creek Pioneer Village.
One couple said, "'It's time to go to Florida,'" Brown said.
Barrie and Collingwood had some flurries, as does Peterborough and Orillia. The snow also extended up into cottage country in the Muskokas and Haliburtons.
CTV Toronto meteorologist Dave Devall said cold air from Georgian Bay and Lake Huron met with air from a low-pressure system. This created snow over a region that stretched from the North Bay-Algonquin area east to Renfrew and down into the GTA. Northern areas could get two to four centimetres of snow, and southern areas could get one to two cm, he said.
In Toronto itself, no snow fell, but the daytime high was about seven degrees below normal and the winds were bitingly cold.
Pumpkin dealers were planning on covering their wares to protect them from the frost expected overnight.
However, this should be a one-day wonder. Temperatures in those communities should rebound to 8 C on Wednesday.
CTV's Austin Delaney said Environment Canada officials tell him that an early snow like this is known as a "teaser."
Last year, the teaser snow arrived on Nov. 8. And on this day in 2007, the temperature was 26 C.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Austin Delaney
