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Calgary police are urging residents to stay home as Alberta digs out after a massive burst of winter weather buried the southern part of the province in up to 40 centimetres of wind-whipped snow.

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“It is some of the most difficult driving conditions we have had for some time,” duty inspector Keith Cain told the Calgary Herald.

Crews were working hard to get a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Calgary open after blowing and drifting snow forced its closure Monday.

The Calgary Board of Education kept its schools open, but cancelled bus service and urged parents to make their own decisions about sending kids to class.

At the airport in Calgary, several flight were still listed as cancelled and many more were delayed — a repeat of what happened Monday, at the storm’s height.

Lethbridge, to the south of Calgary, received 30 centimetres of snow and nearby Pincher Creek was dealing with an excess of 40 centimetres.