Wild winds, rain and even a bit of snow in parts of the province marked Mother's Day weekend in Ontario.
Environment Canada issued a frost warning for areas across southern Ontario for Sunday night including Ottawa, Toronto, Windsor, London and Hamilton.
Toronto Hydro crews spent much of Saturday — and the early hours of Sunday morning — working to restore power to a number of homes around the city.
Winds gusting up to 100 kilometres per hour had snapped trees and pulled down power lines.
At one point, up to 10,000 homes and businesses were blacked out in Toronto, Hydro said.
The Toronto Transit Commission had to shut down service on the Bloor subway line for a number of hours between Islington and Kipling due to fallen debris on the tracks.
In the Ottawa area, the wind knocked out power to homes in the Greenbank area of Nepean on Saturday. Traffic lights were also affected. Hydro Ottawa said about 5,000 customers are affected.
In Kitchener, Ont., the winds flattened a house under construction.
And in Cambridge, police responded to 16 incidents of trees falling onto homes or across streets.
In areas to the north there was wind but also snow.
More than seven centimetres fell in North Bay, creating whiteout conditions at times and breaking a May 8 record that had stood for 33 years.
Light flurries or hail were seen Saturday night and Sunday morning as far south as Toronto.
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