Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

March 2005

Table 3 - March 2005 Snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin

March 2005 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 162 84 10 192 96 386 39
Bow Summit 338 105 15 322 124 533 27
Chateau Lawn 162 67 6 241 112 401 37
Cuthead Lake 338 97 13 350 140 643 24
Highwood Summit 305 96 14 318 145 455 33
Larch Valley 366 98 10 374 201 569 23
Little Elbow 241 90 11 269 102 523 27
Lost Creek 336 81 8 415 158 775 19
Mirror Lake 249 98 20 255 122 483 39
Mist Creek 152 n/a n/a n/a 107 183 3
Mount Odlum 340 92 8 371 168 579 21
Mud Lake 221 82 5 271 112 439 25
Pipestone Upper 183 88 13 208 107 376 39
Ptarmigan Hut 328 98 20 334 175 564 37
Sunshine Village 444 92 16 485 211 770 36
Tent Ridge 229 79 7 289 122 584 23
Three Isle Lake 447 91 9 492 224 752 24

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm

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