The weather is sunny and windy and cold this morning with north winds gusting over 30km/h in most areas and -15C in Kemptville. They are approaching 50km/h in Ottawa with drifting snow and cold wind chills. Look for a dry day today albeit cold and windy. Tuesday should be very pleasant with temperatures moderating and abundant sunshine. It is the best travel day of the week. 
Another low pressure area in the parade of storms will move down the St. Lawrence Valley on Christmas Eve. This storm will have milder air with it and the potential for a rain-snow mix in places does exist. It will be a close call with some of our reading area getting snow while others the mix. Look for about 10cm of snow in most regions before the mix arrives. Freezing rain is possible as well. Travel will become poor again as it has been since Thursday in many parts of the country.
From west to east the first day of winter yesterday was marked by heavy snow, blizzards and cold. Vancouver is buried under 25cm of snow as is most of New Brunswick. Only coastal areas of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are snow free at this time. The rest of the country and well into the northern 1/3rd of the US will have a white Christmas.
Yesterday Kemptville had 15-20cm of snow. The photos are a small sample of what I took yesterday during the storm...be safe. An update on the rest of the weeks weather will be posted later today.
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