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Travellers need to have their winter tires on and gardeners need to look after their plants as frost and snow are in the forecast.

There will be a couple of days of warmer daytime weather but temperatures will dip to the freezing level overnight even before a cold front hits, Environment Canada says.

“It’s going to continue to warm up until the early hours of Sunday then there’s a big cold front for Sunday,” Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist told iNFOnews.ca. “Maybe even as early as midday Sunday, it might be a travel headache because it’s the long weekend and we have this really cold air moving across the Interior so the mountain passes could see snow on the latter half of Sunday and some flurries left on Monday.”

October is the month with the greatest temperature fluctuations with highs forecast for 15C in the Okanagan on Friday before dropping to a chilly 6C on Sunday and rising to 13C next week.

The coldest overnight temperature is actually forecast for tonight with a low of 0C by morning in the Okanagan. It will only be a couple of degrees warmer for most nights in the coming week with the exception of Sunday morning. That's looking like rain and a 6C low, with no increase in temperature for the rest of the day.

In Kamloops, the low is forecast for 1C tonight through to Tuesday morning, with the exception of 7C and rain forecast for Sunday morning.

Kamloops’s high is also forecast as 15C tomorrow and a relatively balmy (compared to the Okanagan) 10C on Sunday before warming up later in the week.

Weather this cold is not unusual for the region in October and it’s actually a bit late as snow in the mid to high elevations can often be seen in September, Lundquist said.

And, he said, snow could be seen in the valley bottoms in about a month’s time.

“It’s a reminder to us to make sure we have the right tires on our cars and we’re ready for winter driving outside the valley bottoms,” Lundquist warned.

Winter tires were required on most B.C. highways as of Oct. 1.

READ MORE: Everything you need to know about B.C.'s winter tire rules

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