Alberta's mountain snowpack above average this season: Province

To track the amount of snow that falls in Alberta's mountain parks, the province monitors real-time electronic data along with physically measuring the depth and weight to calculate its water equivalence. So far this season, numbers show there is a lot of snow in the mountains. At various points in mountain parks the snowpack averages between 115 and 145 per cent of normal. The province says all the Kananaskis plots are above the 30-year normal right now. For example, the Highwood Pass season sn