Maple Ridge News - Cold weather increases flood risks in B.C.

Recent cold weather has piled snow onto mountains across the province at a time when the winter snowpack should be beginning to melt.
...an unusually cold and wet April has increased the snow pack in the South Coast region to 145 per cent of normal as of April 15.

Vancouver Island, meanwhile, has experienced record levels of snow this winter, with snowpacks there at 167 per cent of normal.