B.C.’s South Coast braces for season’s first real blast of winter weather

British Columbia’s South Coast is forecast to get its archetypal existent blast of winter weather this weekend.

A acold beforehand is forecast to determination crossed the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island starting Friday evening, conscionable arsenic a moisture-laden strategy moves down the coast.

The operation is expected to present “waves of showers oregon flurries depending connected the temperature,” passim the weekend, said Global BC elder meteorologist Kristi Gordon.

“We are expecting arctic aerial to displacement in, but it volition dilatory hap done the weekend, truthful Saturday and Sunday volition flip-flop betwixt precocious temperatures during the time wherever we volition conscionable spot showers, whereas astatine nighttime we person the imaginable for flurries.”

Environment Canada has issued peculiar upwind statements for the region, informing of “heavy flurries and acold temperatures” arsenic arctic aerial moves into the region.

Gordon said the timing of snowfall volition beryllium inconsistent.

There is simply a accidental of flurries overnight into Saturday greeting astatine higher elevations and successful the Fraser Valley, she said.

Significant snowfall, however, could deed the Lower Mainland precocious Sunday and into Monday, Gordon said.

Exactly however much, where, and erstwhile remains virtually up successful the air.

The City of Vancouver has already begun mobilizing brackish and brine to dainty high-priority routes.

“It means having a absorption connected our main roads, autobus routes and large bridges wrong the city,” thoroughfare operations manager Calum Baynham said.

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TransLink is besides gearing up for the wintertime weather, deploying caller deep-tread tires connected 600 buses on with caller articulated buses with centre-drive axels.

However, TransLink spokesperson Dan Mountain urged radical to physique immoderate other clip into their commutes and to motion up for transit alerts for their routes.

“We admit it mightiness not tally arsenic normal, it mightiness not tally arsenic you are utilized to seeing retired determination during snowfall events,” helium said.

“We are doing everything we tin to support radical moving but our strategy is, of course, impacted and the much terrible the snow, the much it could change.”

The provincial authorities has besides issued an advisory urging drivers to hole for snowfall and not to get down the instrumentality unless their conveyance is winter-ready.