Prince George is about to get a dousing of snow, according to Environment Canada.
Between two and four cm is forecast to fall during the day on Tuesday followed by another two to four cm overnight.
It is to be accompanied by winds of 30 k/m gusting to as high as 50 km/h and is part of a system that prompted snowfall warnings for the Kitimat-Stewart-Terrace area, where as much as 25 cm is expected, as well as most of southern B.C.
Environment Canada meteorologist Bobby Sekhon attributed the pattern to a "Gulf of Alaska system that's sliding down the Coast."
Daytime highs of 6 C and 2 C are to follow on Wednesday and Thursday.
"The tricky thing is the overnight lows are going to be below zero," Sekhon said. "So any sort of melt that's going to happen could freeze at night, creating some slippery conditions - definitely something for drivers and pedestrians to watch out for."
It will be the latest swing in the up and down temperatures the city has been going through.
Sekhon put it down to a case of "two battling air masses" and noted that historically, January has the highest variability in temperature out of all of the months of the year in Prince George.
