Very little snow so far this winter season. We could be heading for the least snowpack in over 10 years! Conditions were mild and relatively dry during end of December to early January when we usually expect the first heavy snows of winter.
Today we did snow survey at the three snow lysimeter locations. The mature cedar location (shown above) had a snow depth of only about 10 cm, while the neighbouring larch stand had a depth of about 30 cm, showing the influence of the snow interception processes such as canopy melt-drip in the cedar forest stand. During mild conditions, the intercepted snow in the cedar stand is soon melted, while the snow tends to accumulate in the larch stand where there is very little snow interception.
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