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By Dave Barry

Driving conditions

Kamloops area highways impacted by avalanche threats and freezing rain

Dec 25, 2022 | 6:23 AM

KAMLOOPS — Weather warnings and highway closures greeted B.C. Interior residents waking up on Christmas Day.

DriveBC is reporting Highway 1 from Sicamous to Golden was closed due to the threat of avalanches. According to a twitter message from DriveBC, avalanche control work was halted after a vehicle ignored traffic control personnel and into an area where avalanche control work was being conducted. Work was delayed until the vehicle was located.

The Trans-Canada highway is also closed from Boston Bar to Hope by the threat of avalanches. Motorists should consult with the DriveBC website for reopening times of the roadways.

Meantime Environment Canada has issued freezing rain warnings for the Fraser Canyon and along the Coquihalla highway from Kamloops to Hope.

It has also issued a special weather statement for the South Thompson and North Thompson regions advising residents of the threat of freezing rain through Boxing Day (Dec. 26). It says a Pacific frontal system will move across the BC interior Christmas day. It adds that snow mixed with ice pellets and freezing rain from the system will start near the Coast Mountains Sunday morning and then spread eastward in afternoon. It says another system will bring back the wintery mix of precipitation again Boxing day morning.

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Drivers are being urged to consider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve.