Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

June 2002

Table 2 - June 2002 Snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin
June 2002 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 Summit 350 205 19 171 0 414 21
Cuthead Lake 521 159 20 328 0 770 23
Highwood Summit 671 178 22 376 89 671 22
Katherine Lake 635 138 18 460 0 820 21
Larch Valley 490 128 16 384 20 627 22
Little Elbow 602 202 21 298 48 630 23
Lost Creek 858 175 18 491 94 858 18
Mount Odlum 747 272 18 275 0 747 18
Mud Lake 386 413 20 93 0 386 20
Ptarmigan Hut 350 155 18 226 0 447 21
Sunshine Village 686 142 19 482 107 902 24
Tent Ridge 467 241 20 194 0 513 20
Three Isle Lake 919 164 22 560 222 919 22

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm

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