Weather

As rainfall continues to pummel parts of B.C., the province's River Forecast Centre has issued a flood watch for the South Coast, including parts of Metro Vancouver, the North Shore, Squamish, the Fraser Valley, and the Sunshine Coast.

Les Martson said he could see furniture floating in the basement of a friend's home when he surveyed the site of flooding near Ocean Falls, B.C., along the province's central coast.

The ongoing atmospheric river event in British Columbia has dumped more than 200 millimetres of rain in some coastal areas since it began earlier this week.

A report from the office of British Columbia's auditor general says the province expected the Village of Lytton to lead its own recovery from the fast-moving wildfire that destroyed most of the community and killed two people in June 2021.

Avalanche Canada is out with a warning, noting that the North Shore Mountains and the Sea-to-Sky and Whistler area are under a high avalanche warning.

With warmer weather just around the corner, the B.C. government says it is ready to deal with the upcoming wildfire season.

Parts of British Columbia are now under flood watches as an atmospheric river arrives along the coast, triggering a string of weather warnings and watches.

Vancouver has moved closer to an official snowless winter after a chilly blast failed to result in the benchmark one centimetre of accumulation at the city's airport.

Environment Canada has expanded a special weather statement for low-elevation snowfall from Metro Vancouver into other parts of southwestern British Columbia, including Vancouver Island.