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The radar trace tells the tale: a narrow — maybe 30 kilometres wide — band of snow in a line from the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron all the way across south-central Ontario and stretching as far as Rochester, New York.

When it began to cross the Greater Toronto Area, the city Ottawa loves to mock moved into the snowpocalypse equivalent of DEFCON 2.

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Almost instantly, #snowTO was trending No. 1 on Twitter.

In fairness, it was — briefly — fairly intense.