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Calgary is cleaning up after Tuesday's unseasonably harsh taste of winter.
The good news is, the weather system that wreaked havoc on western Alberta has pushed farther east and snowfall warnings that were in effect for three southeast Alberta regions Wednesday morning ended shortly before 9 a.m. MT.
But all that snow meant two separate weather records were broken in the city. Environment Canada said the 32.8 centimetres of snow that fell in Calgary on Tuesday shattered the Oct. 2 snowfall record of 4.6 centimetres set in 1954. And the snow also broke the record for one day in October, which was 30 centimetres set in 1914.
Calgary, comparatively, got off light as Environment Canada said both Kananaskis and the hamlet of Bragg Creek west of Calgary saw 60 centimetres fall as of 7 p.m., while the hamlet of Exshaw had 48 centimetres of snow as of 9 p.m.
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