Improved Spring And Summer Water Supply Forecast

BC Hydro is saying the water supply forecast for the spring and summer period has improved given the soggy weather over the month of April.

BC Hydro is saying the water supply forecast for the spring and summer period has improved given the soggy weather over the month of April.

“The water supply forecast goes from February to September,” explained BC Hydro’s Stephen Watson. “February and March had low precipitation rates in the upper watershed, at only 58 per cent and 69 per cent respectively.

“However, April was 196 per cent of normal precipitation and the third wettest April in 41 years of record. This significantly increased the snowpack that had been quite flat since January.”

A showery start to the month of May has also helped.

Watson added that the April updated forecast was about 83 per cent of normal inflow volume into the Campbell River system, but with the updated May forecast, it is now 89 per cent of normal. The better news is in the residual forecast for the May to September that’s 95 per cent or near normal conditions given all the snowmelt that has yet to start.