Schools throughout B.C.’s Lower Mainland are closed today, with Vancouver under an extreme weather alert as heavy snow falls across a wide swath of southern British Columbia.
Environment Canada has issued a series of snowfall warnings calling for 10 to 20 centimetres of snow from Vancouver Island to the Alberta border. Up to 20 centimetres is expected by this evening, and a snowfall warning is in place for all of Metro Vancouver, Victoria, Whistler, the Sunshine Coast and most of southern B.
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