Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

April 2003

Table 3 - April 2003 Snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin
April 2003 Data   Historical Information
Station Name SWE
(mm) 		% of Average Rank (lowest to
highest) 		Average
SWE
(mm) 		Minimum
SWE
(mm) 		Maximum
SWE
(mm) 		Years of Data
Bow River 142 68 12 209 97 437 67
Bow Summit 290 77 4 375 180 584 25
Chateau Lawn 188 69 13 273 131 480 62
Cuthead Lake 386 88 9 437 239 749 24
Highwood Summit 323 82 8 394 180 681 33
Larch Valley 386 85 7 455 277 632 23
Little Elbow 297 89 8 333 145 597 24
Lost Creek 424 79 6 536 212 825 19
Mirror Lake 234 78 16 301 160 561 64
Mist Creek 152 69 6 219 112 373 25
Mud Lake 264 79 5 333 147 526 26
Pipestone Upper 175 80 21 218 109 434 67
Ptarmigan Hut 312 78 7 398 224 681 37
Sunshine Village 493 82 12 601 277 996 37
Tent Ridge 279 78 5 357 155 605 23

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm

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