The Cariboo is bracing for a blast…a blast of unseasonably warm temperatures. Environment Canada Meteorologist Ken Dosanjh said the region started off the first half of January with temperatures near normal and then last week saw a little bit of a cool down. “Now as we are shifting out this air mass we’re going to be switching gears just a little bit. “We’re looking at temperatures reaching above zero and the normal around this period are highs of minus 3 and lows of minus 12. Any precipitation that does form Thursday night into Friday will likely fall as rain.”Dosjanh noted when you have these high temperatures above zero, bring a little bit of precipitation with it, and then cool conditions down to temperatures below freezing, that creates black ice conditions.