No summer-like weather on the mountains: NSR
Posted May 3, 2013 10:22 am.
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NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Temperatures are expected to hit 28 degrees in spots across the Lower Mainland this weekend and that’s prompted a warning from search and rescue teams. While it may feel like summer, it’s still winter in the mountains.
Tim Jones with North Shore Rescue says there are a lot of people that put themselves in danger every year when the weather gets nice.
“They’ll be in shorts. They’ll be in tank tops. They’ll be in running shoes and use garbage bags or crazy carpets to slide down steep snowfields. And that’s when we called in because usually that results in somebody either getting seriously injured or if not, getting killed.”
Jones adds there’s a danger of heavy, wet snow avalanches and there’s an added risk thanks to the rapid melt. “You get these undercuts of snowpack where you get streams and sinkholes and people go through there also.”
His advice: if you’re heading into the wild then plan ahead, think ahead, and have supplies for a night’s stay, just in case.