The Chilcotin is expected to experience extreme cold weather with wind chills in the minus 40s for the next few days.
“For the next coming days, the cold air mass that’s throughout B.C. will stay there, for tonight and the upcoming nights until Friday,” says Derek Lee, a meteorologist for Environment and Weather Canada.
“There is an extreme cold warning in effect in the Chilcotin. Overall temperatures are dropping down to minus 30 for the upcoming nights, with a wind chill feeling like minus 40 and below.”
Lee says the cold weather will not hit the Cariboo as severely, dipping to minus 28, with a wind chill into the minus 30s; however, that could all change if the weather turns for the worst.
“We need the wind chill to be around minus 40 and below for extreme cold warnings to be issued. We are a few degrees shy and will be updating as soon as possible.”
Environment Canada has issued a frostbite warning in the Cariboo and Chilcotin regions and advises everyone to bundle and cover up as much as possible.
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