Snow falling on B.C. highways, drivers urged to be cautious as wintry weather arrives

Drive BC is informing drivers to beryllium cautious travelling astir the state arsenic snowfall has started falling connected highways and astatine higher elevations.

Snow is falling heavy successful the Sea to Sky portion adjacent Whistler and drivers should expect delays owed to wintertime driving conditions.

Drive BC is informing that vehicles should beryllium equipped with due tires and drivers should question with exigency kits.

A snowfall informing is successful effect for the Sea to Sky portion (Squamish to Whistler) with up to 20 centimetres of snowfall expected done Friday night.

Snow is besides falling connected the Coquihalla Highway and galore areas of the Southern Interior.

Drive BC webcams from the bluish portion of the state amusement dense snowfall arsenic well.

Environment Canada has issued a peculiar upwind statement for Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.

“Freezing levels volition driblet to astir 300 metres Thursday nighttime truthful higher elevations of the South Coast could spot 2 to 5 centimetres of snowfall connected the crushed aboriginal Friday morning. However, this snow volition rapidly alteration to rainfall Friday greeting arsenic temperatures lukewarm up,” Global BC meteorologist Kristi Gordon said connected Thursday.

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A rainfall informing is successful effect for bluish sections of Metro Vancouver and the occidental Fraser Valley, with adjacent to 50 millimetres of rainfall forecast done Friday.

“The rainfall volition easiness Friday day bringing immoderate breaks of bluish entity to the South Coast and the precipitation volition stay airy connected Saturday with conscionable a 40 per cent accidental of showers oregon flurries,” Gordon added.

However, Friday nighttime and done the weekend, temperatures volition autumn arsenic acold Arctic aerial begins to invade the portion and premix with the Pacific moisture, according to Environment Canada.

While amounts of snowfall stay uncertain, accumulating snowfall is apt successful galore areas connected the weekend.

Gordon said determination is simply a higher accidental of snowfall accumulations successful the Lower Mainland connected Sunday, successful the greeting and again astatine nighttime into Monday morning.