Environment Canada has issued wind warnings for parts of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands.

The weather agency says a low pressure system is bringing strong gusts of up to 90 km/h to parts of Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island, expected to last into Sunday morning.

Environment Canada says it issues the warnings when there’s a “significant risk” of damage from high winds, including power outages, and is also warning of snowfall on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt, and on a mountainous stretch of Highway 3 in the B.C. interior.

BC Hydro says its dealing with a number of outages in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island, where trees have fallen down across wires, affecting thousands of customers.

The company says more th

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