Snow-wise, it hasn’t been a great year in the Rocky Mountains, says Canmore-based water expert John Pomeroy.
“[The snowpack] is in the lowest quarter to lowest 10 per cent of all years measured over the last half century in the Kananaskis-Banff region,” said Pomeroy, who is Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change at the University of Saskatchewan.
“It’s definitely a low snow year.”
Provincial river forecasters have noticed similar results. Snow surveys done in late March demonstrated mountain snow conditions “much below average” in the upper portion of the Bow River basin, said river forecaster Colleen Walford.
That news does come
