Monday's winter storm brought a day of snow and blowing snow to the Foothills.

Snow fell throughout the day, quickly turning highway travel hazardous and keeping road crews and RCMP busy.

Environment Canada meteorologist Dan Kulak says actual snow fall amounts can be difficult to measure.

"The amounts that we were getting around southwestern Alberta were in the 15 to 20 centimetre range," Kulak says. "We had a volunteer report in the Okotoks area actually indicated somewhere between 7 and 10. Certainly, there could be some local variations, some of it melts as it hits the ground. There's really a lot of local weather that goes on when you get these snow storms, especially when you have terrain and other influences thrown into the mix as well."

The wintry start to the week will be replaced with warmer temperatures and sunshine as the week progresses. He says the see saw temperatures are typical for this time of year.

"Last week was almost like summer across much of southern Alberta, then we get this storm move through and dump a bunch some snow and close a bunch of roads ," Kulak says. "Then moving back into the warm pattern, this is kind of the back and forth we get in the month of October before we move into November and get more into that settled winter type pattern."

It looks like we're headed for the warmest day of this week on Friday, with sunshine and temperatures forecast to hit 20 degrees Celcius.

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