Drenching rain, heavy snow, strong winds and high tides are converging on coastal and southern British Columbia on Monday.
Warnings have been issued for most of southwestern B.C., where a “potent and impactful” atmospheric river is forecast to make landfall with as much as 150 millimetres of rain falling on western Vancouver Island, Environment Canada says.
Inland Vancouver Island, the Howe Sound region and parts of Metro Vancouver, including the North Shore, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge, could get up to 100 millimetres of rain.
The Ministry of Transportation says it will close a 20-kilometre stretch of Highway 1 south of Lytton starting Monday night
