{"id":401957,"date":"2025-11-24T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:34:14","slug":"heavy-snow-causes-chaos-on-the-roads-in-southern-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401957\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy snow causes chaos on the roads in southern Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Monday morning commute was like a game of bumper cars on many streets and roads around southern Alberta.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heavy snow that blanketed the City of Calgary overnight made many roads virtually impassable as vehicles slid down hills and crashed into each other, prompting police to shut down some streets while emergency crews worked to clear away the smashed vehicles and debris.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Transit was also forced to reroute buses on about 40 routes during the morning commute.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tEmergency crews were forced to shut down this street in the Calgary community of Bankview on Monday morning when about 10 vehicles crashed into each other after failing to navigate a hill.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A large area stretching from <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">southeastern British Columbia into southern Saskatchewan was under a heavy snowfall warning,<\/a> with up to 20 cm of snow expected to fall in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada warned that strong winds will also create blowing snow, reducing visibility and making travel challenging for motorists.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tEnvironment Canada has issued snowfall warnings for a large area stretching from southeastern B.C. into Saskatchewan, with up to 20 cm of snow expected in the hardest hit areas close to the U.S. border.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The snow is forecast to taper off late Monday in B.C. and Alberta, and Tuesday morning in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/en\/location\/index.html?coords=51.046,-114.057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temperature is also expected to drop from a high of -2 C on Monday in Calgary to about -8 C by Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The normal temperature in Calgary at this time of year is 0 C.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Monday morning commute was like a game of 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