Snowfall warning over mountains, while short lived, cold front will hit Calgary

The Banff area could get up to 15 cm of fresh powder on Sunday, following a Snowfall warning issued by Environment Canada.

It was issued alongside several wind warnings in the southern Alberta area but meteorologists don’t expect the weather system to move over Calgary.

“We just expect it to affect more of the higher terrain areas of the province and so as the low [pressure system] moves across it will bring heavy snow across northern Alberta but the main precipitation for the southern parts of the province will just stay along the mountain parks as well as the wind,” said meteorologist Heather Rombough.

Environment Canada said heavy snow is expected to continue over sections of the Icefields Parkway Sunday night, and it will taper off by early Monday morning.

Rombough said Calgary will experience a brief cold front that will drop the temperature to minus 12 by Monday afternoon, but the mercury will rise to minus 2 by Tuesday.

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