Snowpack levels in the Kamloops area are no cause for concern provincial officials.

The amount of snow in the alpine in the North Thompson, South Thompson and Nicola regions are right around normal, according to River Forecast Centre section head Dave Campbell.

“We had seen earlier in the year a pretty strong trend towards rapid snow accumulation, kind of in the December period. That really tapered off in January and the numbers did sort of stabilize month-to-month there. And for the most part I think we’re looking at near normal or even a little below normal in most areas of the province.”

The snowpack level to February 1st province-wide was three per cent below normal on average.

The data shows the South Thompson snowpack is 11 per cent below normal while the Nicola is 12 per cent below.

The North Thompson snowpack is 12 per cent above normal meanwhile, and River Forecast Centre section head Dave Campbell was asked if that warrants any flood risk.

“Typically we look at about 120 per cent of normal as where we start to get more concerned about the amount of snow that’s there, for the flood risk side of things. So we’re still kind of well below that threshold at this point,” he says.

“It’s still fairly early, we see about two-thirds of the snow that we expect to see on the ground at this point in the year. So there’s still two or even three months that things could change significantly.”

The BC River Forecast Centre still not concerned after the latest alpine snow levels were released on Friday. BC wide, snowpack levels were 3% below normal on Feb. 1, compared to 4% below on Jan. 1. @RadioNLNews #Kamloops pic.twitter.com/6p2ZTZPUSg

— Colton Davies (@ColtonDavies_) February 11, 2019