Seems like many Americans near the border have this perception as Canada being the &#x27;source&#x27; of their cold weather.<p>In reality the bulk of the nastiest storms here in Ontario come over the lakes from northern Michigan, which is, yes, north of us. Look on a map, most of the heavily populated areas of Canada are as far south as northern California. The parts that are north of the 49th are much less populated.<p>Yes, periodically there is a nasty cold front coming down from Hudson&#x27;s bay, but the prevailing winds and weather patterns are west to east. So most of our weather blows over from the midwest U.S.<p>The really nasty awful cold weather last year for example, hit the U.S. midwest harder and nastier first.