The special weather advisory for Greater Victoria says up to four centimetres is possible on Tuesday and Wednesday for areas near sea level with more coming in higher terrain including inland areas of Vancouver Island and the North Shore on the Mainland.
The Sea to Sky Highway north of Squamish and Whistler is forecast to receive five to 15 centimetres by Tuesday evening.
A snowfall warning of up to 20 centimetres is active on the Coquihalla Highway, where crashes on Sunday reduced the road to single-lane traffic in both directions and the RCMP recommended against its use.
The snowfall comes in light of a cool and unstable airmass passing over B.C., which also brought gusts reaching 98 kilometres an hour in Hope, 89 in Lytton and Smithers, and 81 kilometres in Kelowna and Dawson Creek.
Vancouver has been waiting for its first official snowfall, and if nothing arrives, it would be the first time the city had gone snow-free since the winter of 1982-83.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 9, 2026.
The Canadian Press