‘Exceptionally large late season storm’ needed to bring mountain snow levels in Banff, Kananaskis to normal

Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
April 24, 2025

BANFF – The snowpack shortage in the mountains could pose dangerous conditions this summer.

Canmore’s John Pomeroy, one of the world’s leading snow and ice hydrology experts, said the snow water equivalent is hundreds of millimetres below normal for this time of year, generally at between 65 and 85 per cent of normal for high elevation snowpacks in the Bow River Basin and Kananaskis Country…

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