Northern Ontario hasn’t been immune from the pattern, either. Spring showers continued to dominate the skies across Sault Ste. Marie even after a season of record-breaking snows, where three days is our longest dry streak to this point in the year.
How does 2026 stack up so far across Ontario?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, precipitation totals are ticking up the charts compared to previous years.
Toronto measured 336 mm of precipitation through the first four months of the year, ranking a few millimetres behind 2023 to claim the second-place prize.
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This was the wettest first four months of the year up the road in Wiarton, where 557 mm of precipitation from January through April blows away the previous record of 517 mm set back in 2013.
Repetitive patterns tell the tale in a soggy province
It’s relatively rare to see multiple cities with such short, narrow windows of dry weather through the first one-third of the year.
Numerous lake-effect snow events followed intrusions of cold air through the middle of the winter season. Spring arrived with an active storm track across the Great Lakes, with limited ridging or blocking in the atmosphere to keep those systems at bay.
