Water Supply Outlook for Alberta

March 2007

Table 3 - March 2007 Snow course measurements in the Bow River Basin
March 2007 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 237 123 34 193 96 386 41
Bow Summit 404 124 26 325 124 533 29
Chateau Lawn 322 133 34 242 112 401 39
Cuthead Lake 514 145 23 354 140 643 26
Highwood Summit 332 105 21 318 145 455 35
Katherine Lake N/A N/A N/A 370 168 607 21
Larch Valley N/A N/A N/A 374 201 569 24
Little Elbow 279 103 18 271 102 523 29
Lost Creek 434 105 14 413 158 775 21
Mirror Lake 254 100 23 254 122 483 41
Mist Creek 174 114 4 152 107 183 5
Mount Odlum 380 103 16 370 168 579 23
Mud Lake 307 113 21 272 112 439 27
Pipestone Upper 254 122 33 209 107 376 41
Ptarmigan Hut 394 117 30 335 175 564 39
Sunshine Village 552 113 28 487 211 770 38
Tent Ridge 334 115 20 291 122 584 25
Three Isle Lake 573 116 19 496 224 752 26

 

Note: SWE represents Snow Water Equivalent in mm
 
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