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Unusually heavy snowfall over the weekend kept Aurora’s streets division working around the clock to keep roads clear.

Saturday’s winter storm dumped six to nearly nine inches of snow on the Aurora area, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Doom. That amount of snowfall often happens every or every-other winter season, but not usually this early in the season, he said.

The snow came from a “really strong, quickly-evolving storm system” that came through the Midwest, right through “the heart of Chicagoland,” Doom told The Beacon-News. The storm system was “loaded with moisture,” he said, and was on the right track to dump all this snow over the area.

“We were sort of ground zero for the highest snow, here and southern Wis

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