{"id":603841,"date":"2026-04-14T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603841\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:26:09","slug":"wintry-storm-set-to-hit-albertas-eastern-slopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603841\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintry storm set to hit Alberta&#8217;s eastern slopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A swath of communities along central Alberta&#8217;s eastern slopes are expected to get walloped with a wintery snowstorm today.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada has issued <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/?layers=alert&amp;province=AB&amp;zoom=5&amp;center=54.59949212,-114.12518664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a series of snowfall warnings<\/a> for communities in west-central Alberta, including Grande Cache, Hinton and areas across the Municipal District of Greenview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heavy snow is expected Tuesday and Wednesday, with total amounts between 20 and 35 centimetres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Spring has not sprung in Alberta:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776187569_470_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Spring in Alberta? Not so fast<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada is forecasting snowfall for much of northern Alberta and the Rocky Mountains. As Travis McEwan reports, it comes as many Albertans are ready to move on from winter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Environment Canada, the snow will begin Tuesday morning and continue through Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The heaviest snowfall is expected near the community of Grande Cache, 430 kilometres west of Edmonton, including parts of Highway 40.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are advised to prepare for quickly changing and deteriorating travel conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Travel will likely be challenging with poor visibility throughout the region, Environment Canada cautioned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-603841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603841","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=603841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}