In the last two years, Kelowna has dealt with severe spring flooding - this year, it's looking much drier.
Dave Campbell, head of the BC River Forecast Centre, says when they measured the snowpack in early March, it was much smaller than last year's snowpack.
"We're 81% of normal and we can compare that to the provincial average of 89% as of March 1st. And we've seen, even over the past two weeks, that things have continued to be dry and we expect those numbers to come down a bit," he says.
However, Campbell says the snowpack numbers this month are similar to 2017's - the year of heavy spring rains that caused flooding on Okanagan Lake.
"We're getting to that stage where there's not a lot of adverse weather in the short term forecast. March has been pretty modest in terms of snow accummulations - we're kind of running out of time to build much in the snow itself, but the big wildcard is going to be that rain side," says Campbell.
He says the new snowpack survey - and river forecast - will be released on April 8th.