B.C.’s current snowpack is tied for the second-lowest March 1 levels at 66 per cent — the lowest it’s been in more than 20 years.
Dave Campbell, the head of the River Forecast Centre, said Friday (March 8) the last time snowpack levels were at 66 per cent was in 2001. The historic low was 53 per cent of normal in 1977.
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