Wind, snow, rain to pummel parts of B.C. again as search continues for missing person

Another storm is rolling off the Pacific, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to British Columbia's coast and a blanket of snow to the Interior. 

It comes as the search continues for a person missing when their home was caught by a mudslide that also rolled over the Sea to Sky Highway near Lions Bay during a storm last weekend. 

Emergency crews recovered the body of one of the two residents of the Sea to Sky area home on Sunday, the day after strong winds pounded the coast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers on the South Coast. 

Environment Canada has issued rainfall warnings for Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and the Southern Gulf Islands, bringing 50 to 70 millimetres of rain, while Vancouver Island could expect between 50 to 100 millimetres by Wednesday. 

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Search continues for missing person after B.C. mudslide washed away home

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At least two people have died in the severe windstorm that hit B.C.'s South Coast this weekend. Sea to Sky RCMP are asking the province for additional resources after one of two residents was killed in a mudslide that washed away their home near Lions Bay, B.C. The search for the home's other occupant continues. Pinki Wong has the latest.

"Anybody going on to the road systems in British Columbia needs to be extremely aware, vigilant and prepared for what is a messy meteorological medley," said Armel Castellan, a warning preparedness meteorologist with the weather forecaster.

"This is a large-scale synoptic winter storm, and it also has a risk of freezing rain," he added. "So pretty much everything that can happen is happening."

Castellan said that the duration of rain won't be as long as the atmospheric river event that struck the South Coast in October, which led to the deaths of at least four people.

"It is going to be all done within even less than 24 hours," he said. "But the rain rates are going to be high, you know, certainly above five millimetres an hour." 

Winds gusting to 100 kilometres an hour will hit the North Coast, easing by early Wednesday. 

The forecaster says the same weather system has prompted snowfall warnings for Whistler, Pemberton and several other areas in the southern and eastern Interior, including mountain passes.

Up to 15 centimetres is expected to fall by Wednesday morning in the Cariboo region, as well as Prince George and the Nechako region, while the Kootenay region could see as much as 30 centimetres over higher elevations.

The agency is warning drivers, including those travelling along the Okanagan Connector and Rogers Pass, of slippery roads and the risk of blowing snow that can make visibility difficult.