A rare and record-setting early snowstorm swept across Toronto and much of southern Ontario on Sunday, causing chaos on roads and kick-starting the city’s winter cleanup crews.

Toronto’s Pearson Airport reported 9.8 centimetres of snow on Sunday, ranking among the largest snowfalls on record this early in the season, according to Environment Canada. “That’s the most snow that’s fallen on Nov. 9 at that site ever,” Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson said. “If we look further into the record books, the only snowier date earlier in the month was Nov. 2, 1966, where Pearson airport reported 10.2 centimetres of snow.” An even earlier snowstorm occurred over two days in October 1969, Coulson noted, dumping roughly 12 centimetres on Toronto (7.1 centimetres on the first day

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