Just over 11 cm of snow fell

The last month of 2018 was a warm one according to the University of Waterloo Weather Station.

It said the overall average temperature for December was two degrees warmer than a typical December.

The warmest it got was 13.5 degrees Celsius on December 2.

The average daily high was 1.7 degrees, while the daily low was around -4.

Due to it being so warm, just over 11 centimetres of snow fell in the month. The average is usually around 37 cm.

It was also an average month in terms of precipitation.

A very rainy last few hours of 2018 pushed that total above 71 millimetres.

The weather station's coordinator said in the past ten years we have seen a pattern of a warmer fall and warmer start to winter.

And it looks like the start of January will be similar to December.

"It looks like we're going to be kind of - the high temperatures, a little bit below zero ... low temperatures, around -5, -10 range. So pretty much what we've seen is what looks like is going to continue for at least the first part of January," Frank Seglenieks said.