The snow has seriously arrived in all areas of the East Kootenay and winter is following right behind.

The region currently has anticipated high temperatures between -3 and -7 C today, with periods of snow, will begin to turn colder tomorrow and head toward -18 and -27C as a low by tomorrow and Wednesday. The colder temperatures are expected for the Elk Valley, according to Environment Canada.

DriveBC currently only has three reported road conditions (limited visibility with heavy snowfall) but they range from seven to 12 hours old now, all in the Elk Valley.

Winter road conditions helped result in several accidents yesterday and last night.

An accident early yesterday evening near the Elko tunnel closed Highway 3 for a period and there were two crashes near Cranbrook over night.

One closed Highway 95 in both directions near Cranbrook in the late evening of Dec. 4 and a second on the Fort Steele Hill (16 km north of the city) closed Highway 93/95 in both directions until about 3 a.m.

Lead image: Highway 3/93 near Moyie. Images from DriveBC

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