This morning's flurries in the Tournament Capital are a result of an arctic front tracking across the region, according to Environment Canada.
Meteorologist Doug Lundquist calls the weather event a "one-day wonder."
"That arctic air is only going to be with us for that one day and then it’s going to be a gradual warming, maybe by next Sunday, Monday we’ll be into the teenage temperatures again," he tells Castanet, noting Williams Lake went from 3 C to -12 C with snow and winds gusting to 28 km/h this morning.
"This is going to happen to Kamloops, not at that extreme but the arctic front is going to go through Kamloops. It is just now going through."
Lundquist says an arctic front at this time of year is pretty late. However, it does happen from time to time.
"I remember in the last 10 years on the equinox, which we sometimes call the first day of spring... the 21st of March, was the coldest day of winter. ... So we can get late-season cold outbreaks."
It's possible Kamloops could break a record, he says. The records are between -7 C and -11 C; Environment Canada is forecasting -10 C on Wednesday night.