More snow forecast for Sea to Sky Corridor, parts of Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley

Oneday after unexpectedly heavy snowfall created travel delays across the region, Environment Canada says another roundsnow could hit parts of B.C.'s South Coast startingWednesday night.

The weather agency saidthe Sea to Sky Corridor andhigher terrain inMetro Vancouver and Fraser Valley could see 5-15 centimetres of snowfall Wednesday night and into Thursday.

"Snow accumulations will be highly variable depending on location and elevation," a special weather statement read.

Rainis expected to start in theafternoon and transitionto wet snow or a mix of snow and rain in the evening andcontinue through Thursday morning. The Sea to Sky Corridor, meanwhile, "will receive all snow during the event."

Thursdaymorning's commute will likely be affected, the agency warned.

An unexpectedly intense weather system dumped heavy, wet snow across eastern and southern Vancouver Island and the inner South Coast on Tuesday morning,prompting power outages, school and transit cancellations, airport delays and traffic delays.

Public schools were closed in North and West Vancouver and Simon Fraser University delayed the start of morning classes while the icy conditions forced the shutdown of transit operations in Victoria and the Cowichan Valleyalthough some services in Victoria were resuming by mid-morning.

Nearly 25,000 propertiesacross the province's southwest were without power early Tuesday. That number was down to just 400 by Wednesday morning, all on southern Vancouver Island.