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Extreme weather has been known to hit Windsor, Ontario, and the city is home to several local, national, and international weather records. They are shown below, organized chronologically (by date):
- March 21: The area between Windsor and Cobalt in Ontario was affected by winds gusting up to 150km/h. 7 people were killed during the storm which also damaged buildings and uprooted trees.
- March 30: 30-40mm freezing rain affected south Ontario from the Windsor area to an area just north of Toronto.
- March 8: Temperatures in Windsor, ON drop to -19.4°C, the coldest March night on record here.
- May 10: Lows drop to -2.8°C in Windsor, ON, the coldest May night on record here.
- October 4: Temperatures reach 28.9°C in Windsor, Ontario, the highest temperature recorded across Canada in October 1967.
- September 2: 8 tornadoes touch down between Windsor and London, Ontario.
- June 25: The temperature hit 40.2°C. At 38.2°C it was also the hottest day on record in London, Ontario, as well.
- July 14: Windsor, Ontario has the dubious pleasure of recording a Humidex of more than 50°C, the highest recorded in Canada up to that then.
- September 3: One of Canada's worst road disasters occurred in dense early morning fog which suddenly sprung up near Windsor, Ontario on Highway 401 just east of Exit 21, reducing visibility to less than 1 metre. 82 vehicles were destroyed, 8 people were killed and 33 others were injured.
- February 26: saw temperatures in London, ON reach 17.8°C whilst in Windsor temperatures topped 20°C for the first time on record in February.
- March 7: Temperatures exceeded 25°C in Windsor, Sarnia, Petrolia and Strathroy (all in Ontario). Records show that this is the earliest temperatures over 25°C have been reached here, beating the old record by more than 3 weeks.
- April 20: 94.6mm rain fell in Windsor, Ontario, well above the total average precipitation for the whole month of April (74.9mm). London and Sarnia were also really wet, recording 66.4mm and 51.2mm rain respectively.
- February 25: The temperature peaked at 15.1°C in Windsor, Ontario, the highest temperature recorded in the whole of Canada in the whole of February 2002.
- March 26: An early Spring storm brought snow to much of southern Ontario, and some freezing rain to the St. Catharines/Hamilton area. Among the storm snowfall totals was 24.5cm in Cornwall, 15cm in Kitchener, 13cm in Peterborough, 12cm in Barrie, 11cm in Windsor, between 7 and 12cm snow fell in Toronto and 8cm in Hamilton.
- April 8-9: Heavy rain on the 8th and 9th (mainly on the 8th) over parts of Ontario knocks out power to 4,000 customers in Muskoka. Among the wettest places were Windsor with 31mm and Hamilton with 22mm rain; here it was the wettest weather since January 31st. Meanwhile, in Wiarton, conditions were much wetter and 41mm rain fell.
- April 11: Temperatures peak at 20.5C in London and 20.7C in Windsor, the warmest weather here since 25th October 2001 when temperatures topped 20°C for the last time. Meanwhile Medicine Hat reached 17.5°C, the warmest weather here since the first half of November 2001 whilst 17.9°C in Saskatoon was their warmest weather since early October 2001.
- April 16: Temperatures in an area extending from Windsor and London northeastwards across the Barrie, Hamilton and Greater Toronto Area areas to Ottawa reached 28-30°C, the hottest weather in this area since September 9, 2001.
- February 23: A major winter storm affected southern and eastern Ontario on the 22 and 23 February. 15 to 30cms snow fell across many parts of regions extending from Windsor across Barrie-Huronia and Ski Country into the National Capital Region/Ottawa, Ontario area. Locally as much as 30 to 40cms snow fell and drifts up to 60cms deep were reported. On the morning of the 23rd snow depths included 20cms in Windsor, 17cms in Hamilton, 10-15cms in Kitchener, 26cms in Grand Valley, 28cm in Vaughan, 20-30cm in Maple, Northern Toronto, 20 to 25cms in Barrie, 34cms in Orillia, 25cms in Brampton, 27cm in Minden and 20-37cm in the Ottawa area. The greatest snow depth was 37cm recorded in Franktown, southwest Ottawa. Freezing rain and ice pellets also affected the Niagara region and the north shore of Lake Ontario. Ice accretions as high as 2-4cms were reported in Prince Edward County
- March 3: A cold start across Ontario. Overnight lows fell to -24.7C at Pearson Airport, Toronto, -30.5 at Wiarton, -29.4C at Kitchener, -24.6°C at Hamilton, -34.7°C at Sudbury, -32.3°C at Gore Bay, -31.0°C at Petawawa, -19.7°C at Windsor, -29.2°C at Peterborough and -22.3°C at Sarnia.
- April 28: Summery over southern Ontario and Quebec with temperatures up to 26.4°C in Toronto, 26.1°C in Windsor, 25.1°C in Ottawa, 25.5°C in Sarnia and 24.3C in London. Montreal reached 23.7°C, Sherbrooke reached 24.3°C and Maniwaki reached 25.1°C.
- October 12: Somewhat unusually cool air allows 0.2 inches of snow to fall, just enough to break the old record of Earliest Snowfall of the Season. The previous record was October 13th. The requirements for measurement is 0.1 inches or higher. Below that, it would have been measured as a "trace" amount of snow, and would not have been a record.
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