Calgary weather: Brief cool down starts Thursday [Video]

Wednesday will bring more melting in Calgary with a daytime high around 6 C – which is seasonal.

This will be the warmest temperature since last Tuesday, but this bump will be very brief.

A low-pressure system in northern Alberta is expected to intensify and slide further south on Wednesday and Thursday.

Snow is expected along the associated cold front and as that frontal system tracks southeast through Alberta early Thursday, there is the potential for instability and a return to upsloping flow west of Calgary.

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Upsloping – air moving east to west against the leeward (east side) of the Rockies – can produce high-precipitation weather events, like last week’s snowfall.

For this incoming system, areas west of Calgary are likely to see higher accumulations over a short period of time – which may prompt …