Ontario Snow Survey location and data
This data contains location information for 1 of Ontario’s snow monitoring networks: * Surface Water Monitoring Centre (SWMC) Snow course data is collected by: * conservation authorities * Ontario Power Generation * Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) districts Data is collected twice a month from November 15 until May 15. The Surface Water Monitoring Centre uses this data to assess: * current snow cover * frozen ground conditions * snowpack * potential snowmelt * contributions to streamflow The snow data is located in a corporate water and climate database. This data helps MNR and conservation authorities assess the potential for flood at the local and provincial scale.
- Publisher
- Government of Ontario
- Resources
- 6
- Catalogue metadata updated
- 2026-05-27
Data overview
- Formats
- ESRI REST, HTML, SHP
- File languages
- English, French
Official sources and licences
Resources
- Emplacement du relevé des neiges de l’Ontario et données (English, SHP) SHP
- Ontario Snow Survey location and data (English, SHP) SHP
- Ontario Snow Survey location and data (extracted from geohub) (English, ESRI REST) ESRI REST
- Ontario Snow Survey location and data (extracted from geohub) (English, ESRI REST) ESRI REST
- Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca) (English, HTML) HTML
- Original metadata (https://data.ontario.ca/fr) (French, HTML) HTML