{"id":578018,"date":"2026-04-02T19:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578018\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:54:17","slug":"photos-april-showers-more-like-april-shovels-for-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578018\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: April showers? More like April shovels for Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Apr. 2, 2026, 6:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>What a lovely winter Calgary is having this spring.<\/p>\n<p>We get it, Canada. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/forecasts\/outlook-will-canadas-april-bring-a-summer-preview-or-a-winter-rewind\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">It has been cold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us are still bundling up &#8212; but in several parts of the country, you can see the grass.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t the case for Calgary, Alberta, because Mother Nature decided to play a belated April Fools prank on the city.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, residents woke up to snowy roads and traffic delays.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos sent in by our own Connor O&#8217;Donovan:<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/4ZnRerPSX8KMOjpoMxDe7B\/e19fa80de0106bdc4441c0a2ebd6c1cc\/Connor_ODonovan_-_Calgary_snow_-_April_2.jpeg\" alt=\"Connor ODonovan - Calgary snow - April 2\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Connor_ODonovan_-_Calgary_snow_-_April_2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n(Connor O&#8217;Donovan\/The Weather Network)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Apr. 2, 2026, 6:30 PM What a lovely winter Calgary is having this spring. We get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-578018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}