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by grecy
833 days ago
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I drove over the Columbia River last night in Castlegar, BC. I could have done so without the bridge - there is almost no water flowing. Many of the rivers and lakes in BC are severely, severely low to the point power generation is getting difficult and mills are closing. Of course, summer is just around the corner, and it seems exceptionally likely it will be a record fire season with record heat once again. It's very hard to imagine things not getting worse. |
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The level of the Columbia River in Castlegar varies so much (due to the Hugh Keenleyside Dam and other upstream dams on the Kootenay and Columbia rivers) that it's not a very good indicator of drought.
A quick look shows that the Arrow Reservoir is at about 426.1m, which historically is not that bad. However, with the lack of snowpack, the absence of snowmelt runoff is going to be a big problem.