Environment Canada has issued a Snowfall Warning as amounts of about 10 centimetres are expected from this evening into tomorrow evening.
Areas under the warning: Cariboo North including Cottonwood and north of Quesnel along Highway 97 and Cariboo South including Horsefly.
Armel Castellan, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist, said there is snow in most of the Highway Passes, and Clinton to 100 Mile House via the Begbie Summit , 2 to 4 centimetres could fall tonight and another 2 centimetres tomorrow during the day.
In addition to the snowfall amounts, Castellan added that temperatures will start to get cooler Tuesday night, minus 20 into Wednesday morning.
“On Tuesday night it starts to cooler, about six degrees cooler, so minus twenty into Wednesday morning. We don’t see a lot of snow as it looks like a fairly dry pattern as the Arctic air makes its way into the Interior from the North to the South. We might see temperatures down to minus thirty-six Thursday into Friday and even colder Friday into Saturday as the cold air sinks into the Cariboo. Highs of only minus twenty-nine are about twenty-five or so degrees colder than normal.”
Castellan said this will be the first and maybe the only extreme cold we see over the season and expect daily minimum temperatures to be broken during this event.
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