A cabin stranded among high water from the Peel River across from Fort McPherson, N.W.T.
Ryan Connon, a hydrologist with the Environment and Climate Change, said that also means an elevated risk of high water at breakup this year for the Peel River.A cabin stranded in high water from the Peel River across from Fort McPherson, N.W.T. in May 2023. Water levels in the region are high this year, but a hydrologist said it's difficult to predict what that will mean yet for the region. The N.W.T.
"If there's persistent, warm weather that sort of deteriorates the ice, and if the ice can melt out slowly, then that'll decrease the chance of of strong ice jams."More than a dozen cabins and homes in Fort McPherson were damaged from flooding."We don't know what kind of spring and what kind of flood we're going to have this year. There's a lot of snow," Vittrekwa said earlier this week.
Water levels on the Hay River are also the lowest on record, and beyond that, the Hay River region has significantly less snowpack than usual.In Fort Simpson, water levels on the Mackenzie River remain at record lows.
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