Okanagan/ Kettle River Region lowest snowpack in BC – sitting at 81 percent.
Many areas of the province have 150% snowpack levels and even higher.
At this stage the two main issues are the below-normal snow packs and seasonal flow outlooks for the South Interior, particularly the Okanagan (and the potential for water supply issues into the summer of 2012), and the above-normal snow packs (and potential for increased spring flood risk) in the Upper Fraser, Nechako, Peace, and Skeena-Nass regions, and the Fraser River basin as a whole.
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These numbers correspond with what I have seen – I don’t get too concerned about it in mid-February as we often get snow later – and last year we got three feet of new snow in April after the ski season was over.
For once a report that makes sense. High snow pack equals higher lake levels, low snow pack means low lake levels.
One of my pet peeves is, people relating snow pack to forest fire season!! The truth is we can have a way above snow pack but soon after it melts, it is fire season, and without rain, there is a great potential for fire. On the other hand, we can have a year without any snow in the hills, but if we get a bit of rain every few days throughout the summer any fires are unlikely. Snow is lake levels & irrigation issues, rain is fire suppression. See very easy…