Active AlertsRadium Hot Springs, BC

Special Weather Statement

Issued at Fri 6:26 AM Mar. 20
Issued by: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Description

Heavy Rain and High Freezing Levels

What: 30 to 50 mm accompanied by freezing levels of 2000 to 2600 metres.

Where: East Columbia, East Kootenay - North.

When: Now until this evening.

Impacts:
- Heavy rainfall and snowmelt from high freezing levels may increase the risk of localized flooding and landslides in sensitive areas.

Remarks: An atmospheric river continues to impact southern B.C. delivering 30 to 50 mm of rainfall to the region through the evening. This is in addition to what has already fallen in the area this week. With freezing levels ranging from 2000 to 2600 metres, snowmelt from higher elevations may increase the impacts associated with this rainfall event.

Rain is expected to subside by the evening and freezing levels will trend downward as a cold front passes.

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