Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

April 2006

Table 3 - April 2006 Snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin

April 2006 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 167 80 21 208 97 437 70
Bow Summit 329 88 8 372 180 584 28
Chateau Lawn 221 82 20 270 131 480 65
Cuthead Lake 302 71 3 427 239 749 27
Highwood Summit 323 83 9 389 180 681 36
Katherine Lake n/a n/a n/a 419 246 663 19
Larch Valley 395 88 9 449 277 632 26
Little Elbow 308 94 15 328 145 597 27
Lost Creek 446 86 9 520 212 825 22
Mirror Lake 279 93 32 300 131 480 67
Mist Creek 163 77 8 213 112 373 28
Mount Odlum 390 84 4 465 221 699 18
Mud Lake 280 85 9 328 147 526 29
Pipestone Upper 175 81 22 217 109 434 70
Ptarmigan Hut 353 89 16 396 224 681 40
Sunshine Village 520 87 17 596 277 996 39
Tent Ridge 327 93 10 352 155 605 24
Three Isle Lake 636 107 15 592 305 874 23

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm

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