While it hasn’t been record-breaking, Toronto has seen an extraordinary amount of snow this autumn — and the weather could get worse over the next week.

After another six centimetres of snow fell in Toronto on Friday morning, Environment Canada meteorologist Peter Kimball told the Star that residents should prepare for what promises to be a wild week ahead.

There’ll be a wet and deceptively warm interlude Sunday and Monday, with rain forecasted for both days, he said.

But then Toronto will be plunged right back into the cold.

“It’ll be extremely cold next week — the coldest we’ve seen this year in terms of temperature plus wind chill — beginning on Tuesday,” Kimball said.

And, adding insult to injury, Kimball said there’s a “possibility” that next Sunday could bring with it a “fairly significant storm.” But it’s too early to say whether it’ll consist of rain, snow, wind or all three.

It’s all part of what has been an uncharacteristically snowy autumn.

According to Kimball, an average amount of snow for Toronto through November and December is 32.4 cm. We are well past that now.

“We’re at 40.6 cm. already, and we’re not even halfway through the month of December, so we’re above-average, clearly,” Kimball says.

Although the past five weeks have been rough, and more snow is in the forecast, it has been worse: the all-time record for November and December snowfall in downtown Toronto is 116 centimetres (nearly four feet of snow), set in 1876.

Does Kimball think that we’ll eclipse that record this year?

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“In the short term, no, because in the short term, we’re going to have that rain scenario.”

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Despite the snow, Kimball doesn’t know whether it’ll be a green or white Christmas.

“It’s too early to say,” he said. “I think, statistically, there’s a 50 per cent chance of a green Christmas in Toronto. And I think it’s probably going to be about that this year.”