Frigid Air Brings Widespread Snow to Western Canada's Ski Resorts
It’s been an active few weeks for Canada’s western ski resorts where, as the ski season approaches, early tastes of winter keep showing up.
The latest surge of chilly weather arrived over the weekend, delivering modest—but still noticeable—snow coverage to resorts like Revelstoke, Banff Sunshine Village, Lake Louise, and more.
For Banff Sunshine Village, it was at least the third round of snowfall since August, when a storm late that month brought enough frozen precipitation to build a snowman.
The more recent snow looked a little thinner but was still enough to get the ski season gears turning.
“That didn’t take long! Winter sure wants to come back to the slopes,” Sunshine Village wrote in a social media post.
At Sunshine Village’s neighbor, Lake Louise, there were also a few more September flakes.
For SilverStar, which is further west and near Kelowna, the weather system dropped the freezing level low enough for the first snow of the season.
Silverstar
Revelstoke got in on the fun, too.
Do the fall and summer flurries mean a good ski is coming to western Canada? To avoid jinxing it, we’ll throw our hands up and, probably accurately, say that the jury is still out. The weather’s a fickle beast, after all. It’s best, then, to think of these storms as nothing more than a nice reminder: winter, however it shakes out, is on the way, it says. Meanwhile, the actual business of season-long snow accumulation doesn’t usually come into play until late October or early November.
The mountain snow comes ahead of a separate wet system in the American Southwest that could produce heavy precipitation—and potentially heavy snow—on Colorado’s highest peaks. In his latest update, forecaster and meteorologist Chris Tomer called for between one and two feet of snow above 13,000 and 14,000 feet in southern Colorado later this week.
During this round, according to Tomer, the freezing levels are keeping the storm from producing more significant snow. But the moisture’s already there and, this time of year, that’s a start.
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