Crazy winter weather hasn’t impacted snowpack

Jan 10, 2017 | 5:54 AM

KAMLOOPS — The topsy-turvey winter hasn’t done much to impact the snow pack in most of the province. So far, in the upper levels, it’s been just business as usual in the higher elevations. 

The first Snowpack report of the year released yesterday show most of the province slightly below normal, including the North Thompson basin at 87 percent, and the South Thompson right at normal.

Dave Campbell from the River Forecast Centre says the up and down pattern of weather has been interesting to watch this winter, but it hasn’t given us much beyond normal up in the mountains.

“In a very general sense,” says Campbell, “we’ve had quite cold weather over the past month through December, and a warm month before that in November. “