Will it be a white Christmas in Toronto? [Video]

If you’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas, you’re in luck.

“Our dreams have come true. We’re going to have a white Christmas,” David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada, told CTV News Toronto Monday.

Phillips says a white Christmas is defined by having at least two centimetres of snow on the ground and this year, Toronto has a good chance of snow coverage.

“The snow forecast in the two days before Christmas Day will bring the two centimetres of snow required for a white Christmas,” he said. “In total, the Toronto area is forecast to receive five to 10 centimetres of snowfall Monday afternoon and night.”

“Flurries Tuesday will refresh that white look and allow it to hold through the night.”

Phillips noted that although snow will fall Monday and Tuesday it won’t “bring much misery with it” because storm conditions are not expected.

The senior climate scientist added that despite the temperature forecast to climb above zero degrees …