Nuclear snowfall’ In Western Canada

Snowfall numbers in western Canadian have been going off the scale with Revelstoke reporting it has passed the 3m/10 feet of snowfall this month mark this week; Lake Louise (pictured above) saying it has had around 1.5m/five feet this week alone; Nakiska saying it received 60cm/2 feet in 24 hours; and Kicking Horse (pictured below) reporting it received over 10cm/4 inches of snow in one hour alone on Tuesday.

The latest snowfall excesses come on top of a snowy month which has already seen Western Canadian resorts opening early or announcing they are about to – Big White, Cypress Mountain, Kicking Horse, Panorama, Sun Peaks and Whistler have all announced early openings.

The Head of Mountain Safety at Kicking Horse described the snow storm on Tuesday/Wednesday as 'nuclear snowfall' in a bid to describe the excessive volumes involved.

And coming to a mountain near you (if you're in Europe) tomorrow...

We put our forecast updates on pause this morning as we didn't quite believe some of the numbers coming through... but they're what the models are saying and well within the normal reliable time-scales now so watch this space.

We expect the latest update to have been processed within the next hour... it's quite impressive. :shock:

Could this week be the snowiest in the history of the world then? :)

J2SkiNews wrote:Could this week be the snowiest in the history of the world then? :)

Oh definitely, like EVER! :lol: Do tell the Express; they'll probably explode...

This is just yesterday, and we don't open for 2 more weeks!
(That's not stopping the locals from hiking up)

Oh, Canadian Skier! they even named the sign after me!!!

I can confirm, having skiied in great Canadian conditions, (even did some noodling}, that I could not consider using a snorkel in 2ft of snow.

I can, however,confirm that I might have called in sick when the snow depth would have covered my boots. (Actually, that is untrue, in 40 years of working, I never took a sick day off, but that shouldn't spoil a good line....)

2ft of snow in complex terrain translates into waist to chest deep, which makes breathing difficult if not timed properly. Being on the eastern Slopes of the Rockies means we have almost no humidity. On a big cold (<-15c) snow day, we can have waist deep snow that barely slows you down. Which is awesome.

We were absolutely thinking of you when we put your name on our storm cam!!!

YUP! Noodling sometimes can't be avoided.