An ice storm in Ontario province and snow in neighboring Quebec snarled traffic and several weather-related road accidents took place in and around Toronto and Montreal, none of them fatal.

The weather forced 50 flight cancellations and 80 delays at Toronto and Montreal airports. About 15 centimeters (six inches) of snow fell in Montreal.

The wintery weather arrived after an unusually warm and snowless start of the season.

Weather services reported record temperatures of around 10 degrees Celsius (40 Fahrenheit) in several parts of the country this month, when normally the thermometer shows below-freezing temperatures.

All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.