Avalanche Canada extends avalanche warning due to significant snowfall

Avalanche Canada has extended a special avalanche warning until the end of day Thursday, March 7th due to more significant snowfall on top of the snowpack layer that’s been a cause for concern.

Avalanche forecaster Tyson Rettie says as much as 60 centimetres has fallen in the south Rockies over the past couple of days, particularly in the Fernie, B.C. area, a popular destination for southern Albertans.

Just over the weekend another Albertan was caught up in an avalanche and died in the Revelstoke area while snow biking. This follows the previous weekend’s deadly avalanche in southern Alberta’s Castle Wildlife Provincial Park that killed 46-year-old Lethbridge dentist Scott Walburger while he was snowmobiling. He leaves behind a wife and three children in Magrath.

Related story:

Avalanche Canada on misconceptions about avalanches

 

 

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

Related post