Vancouver is bracing for its first major snowfall of the season, and the city says it's prepared for whatever Mother Nature brings now and during the Olympics in two months.

Flurries were being reported across Metro Vancouver on Sunday. But Sunday's light snow is nothing compared with what's coming, according to John McIntyre, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.

While Monday will start out OK, he said, it won't end that way.

He said some parts of Vancouver could see as much as 20 centimetres of snow by early Tuesday, with freezing rain complicating matters in some areas.

Snow caused a lot of problems in parts of the Lower Mainland on Sunday. Areas including Langley and south Surrey were the hardest hit, with dozens of car accidents reported, police said.

Murray Wightman, Vancouver's manager of street operations, said Sunday more than a dozen trucks were already salting the roads and are ready for what may come over the next 48 hours.

He said the city has 51 trucks of various sizes ready to salt and plow the streets as needed.

The city also has plans in place to clear the streets during the Winter Olympics in February, including a new, bigger snowblower ready for battle.