Ahead of a major storm set to hit Vancouver Island, those north of Campbell River woke up to snow already making for a messy commute.
expected to bring heavy wind and rain Tuesday night, those north of Campbell River woke up to snow already making for a messy commute.
Highway 19 was blanketed by flurries on Menzies Hill at Roberts Lake in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Drive BC warned motorists they faced winter driving conditions and compact snow on stretches of both Highway 19 and Highway 28 between Gold River and Campbell River.Flurries were also seen on the Malahat Highway on the South Island late Monday night, though the snow appeared to have melted Tuesday.The snow comes as a bomb cyclone is expected to touch down some 400 kilometres southwest of Vancouver Island starting late Tuesday afternoon.
“I’m looking at some latest model guidance that’s rolling in, and that snow level is getting uncomfortably low, so I think there could be some lower elevation snow surprises with this,” Tyler Hamilton, a meteorologist with The Weather Network,Mount Washington could get nearly a metre of snow by Wednesday evening while snowfall rates could approach five to 10 centimetres per hour at the height of the storm, Hamilton said.
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