{"id":5461,"date":"2026-04-14T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7614766"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:28:32","slug":"late-season-dump-of-snow-expected-on-coquihalla-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/5461\/late-season-dump-of-snow-expected-on-coquihalla-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Late season dump of snow expected on Coquihalla Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the snow that was missing during the winter is showing up a bit late with a storm expected to hit the Coquihalla Highway overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Hope to Merritt along Highway 5, Environment Canada is calling around 25 centimetres of snow to fall by tomorrow morning, April 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat&#8217;s pretty heavy for this time of year, I would say. Have we gotten snow events this late? Definitely. But I think we could sometimes get snow in the mountain passes as late as May,\u201d Environment Canada meteorologist Derek Lee told iNFOnews.ca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Okanagan Connector and the Coquihalla from Merritt to Kamloops are likely only going to get a few centimetres since most of the snow will fall at the summit of the mountain pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The region could use the snow since the Okanagan\u2019s snowpack is seriously low, <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/news\/7610761\/whats-happening-downstream-of-low-snowpack-in-the-okanagan\/\">just 58 per cent of normal.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The valley bottoms as expecting some precipitation as well in Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton with a slight chance of some flurries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTemperatures could be close enough to see maybe some wet flakes in some areas in the valley bottoms. But I would say it&#8217;s hard for it to stick when it&#8217;s still above zero,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee said the freezing level is going to be around 800 metres heading into tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnything higher there, you&#8217;ll probably see more snow as you climb higher in the elevations of the highway. And some parts probably still have some rain showers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Okanagan is anticipating some cloudy, rainy days with daily high temperatures around 12 Celsius until Friday, April 17. Kamloops should be a bit sunnier by Thursday with daily high temperatures looking like a sunny 19 C for the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTemperatures could be close enough to see maybe some wet flakes in some areas in the valley bottoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":5462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1285,492,493],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"post_modified":"2026-04-14T14:28:32","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:28:32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-Screenshot-2026-04-14-at-2.14.45-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}