Metro Vancouver to see cold snap leading into the weekend

It may still be October, but Metro Vancouver is expected to see winter temperatures enter the forecast this week.

CityNews Meteorologist Carl Lam says we can expect to see a cold snap creep in Wednesday night and stick around until next week.

“We’re dropping down close to the freezing mark for overnight lows around Metro Vancouver, certainly colder the further north and east you go. It’s going to be a very chilly stretch in terms of daytime highs just hovering in the upper single digits,” he said.

“All in all it looks like a dry stretch from Thursday to Sunday, but we are going to be dealing with cooler-than-average daytime highs and overnight lows.”

The City of Vancouver has issued an extreme weather alert in response to temperatures that feel like freezing levels lasting until Friday night.

The city says it will be opening two warming centres for those who would be out in the cold, one at the Directions Youth Services Centre on Burrard Street, and another at the Salvation Army Belkin House on Homer Street.

These frigid-feeling temperatures are expected to stretch across the Lower Mainland as well.