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Highway 5 — Coquihalla · Merritt → Kamloops travel alerts and notifications
Current road and weather alerts plus FireRadar account options for basic highway email alerts and the FireRadar Plus Highway Watch service.
Official transportation source
INCIDENTS REPORTEDCURRENT
1 active matching official record. A missing event is never interpreted as a route-wide open or safe condition.
Retrieved: Aug 19, 2026, 10:41 p.m. UTC
Environment Canada
Weather along the corridor
Alerts
1
Temperature
32°C
Wind
8 km/h
Gust
30 km/h
YELLOW WARNING - AIR QUALITY
warning · yellow alert level · expires Aug 20, 2026, 11:08 a.m. UTC
Nearest available city-page weather point: Kamloops · observed Aug 19, 2026, 10:00 p.m. UTC.
Today
Sunny. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. Local smoke. Wind becoming west 20 km/h this afternoon. High 32. UV index 7 or high.
Tonight
Partly cloudy. Local smoke. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low 20.
Thursday
A mix of sun and cloud. Clearing near noon. Hazy. High 34. UV index 6 or high.
Thursday night
Clear. Low 17.
Notifications
Email alerts are free. Highway Watch is Plus.
A Free account can configure bounded email alerts for supported official closure, reopening and restriction changes. FireRadar Plus adds the Highway Watch product with advanced highway/wildfire monitoring and SMS delivery.
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