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Calgarians are anticipated to face a chilly weekend after snowfall precipitated issues in and across the metropolis on Friday.
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Setting Canada predicts an in a single day Saturday low of -20 C with gusty winds and a wind chill of -31 C. Sunday’s forecast requires a mixture of solar and cloud with lows of -17 C and the wind chill reaching -32 within the morning hen. Gusty winds are anticipated within the morning.
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There’s a danger of freezing by means of the weekend.
These low temperatures comply with a interval of delicate climate in Alberta’s largest metropolis that got here to a halt on Friday with heavy snowfall. Setting Canada studies 33 centimeters of snowfall throughout town, breaking the all-time snowfall document for that date. The earlier document was 11.9 centimeters in 1970.
The downpour of white climate is inflicting issues throughout town with Calgary police reporting about 330 automobile crashes, together with 36 leading to accidents. The roads had been barely quieter on Saturday morning with 34 accidents reported to the police by 10am
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North of town, RCMP from Airdrie and Didsbury responded to a collision on Freeway 2 close to Carstairs involving 25 to 30 automobiles that closed lanes in each instructions within the early afternoon. Images posted on-line present a number of automobiles stopped on the street with others, together with semi-trucks, stopped in roadside ditches.
Police issued an replace shortly earlier than 10pm saying the street had been opened however warned situations remained icy. Alberta 511 indicated there weren’t any closures within the space Saturday morning, however that situations remained icy.
In the meantime, there have been 37 flight cancellations at Calgary’s airport on Friday, YYC confirmed Saturday.
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