Snowfall warning, treacherous roads as winter roars back in northeast B.C.

Andrew Kurjata · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 12, 2025 5:53 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

After respective days of warming weather, wintertime is roaring backmost successful northeastern B.C., bringing a snowfall informing and treacherous driving conditions.

Heavy snow mixed with rainfall has been falling successful Prince George, and a snowfall informing has been issued for the southbound Peace region, with up to 10 centimetres of snow expected overnight.

Environment Canada says a low-pressure system moving crossed the B.C. Interior is liable for the conditions, which tin origin debased visibility and hard driving conditions.

Winter tires are inactive required connected road routes passim the B.C. northbound and Interior until March 31.

City warns residents not to beryllium fooled by mendacious spring

In Dawson Creek, a warming centre was activated Wednesday successful effect to the snowfall informing and volition proceed to connection 24/7 services until March 15.

In Prince George, the metropolis has been utilizing humour to punctual residents of the rules and the beingness of "spr-inter," oregon wintertime dressed up as spring, erstwhile upwind can rapidly power betwixt outpouring melt and wintertime snowfall conditions.

At the opening of March, it issued a reminder connected societal media pages not to usage hoses oregon sprinklers to melt snow, arsenic it tin frost and clog drawback basins, arsenic good arsenic "tempt Mother Nature into giving america different dump of snow."

Earlier today, the metropolis posted a photograph of the snowfall extracurricular metropolis hallway with a caption reading, "Alright, who took their wintertime tires off?"