The mood was jubilant at Mount Washington Alpine Resort on Vancouver Island after a weekend storm saw 108 centimetres of snow blanket the resort. The snow was a welcome reprieve from the warm and wet weather that started the season… A snowpack report from last week revealed that Vancouver Island’s snowpack levels are the lowest in the province, sitting at just 39 per cent of normal snowfall accumulation, meaning this past weekend’s storm was desperately needed. Matt Loney, an Environment Canada meteorologist, says that an extended period of ridging — an elongated area of high pressure in the upper atmosphere — kept weather systems away, causing a prolonged dry period on Vancouver Island. He says things are shifting back to normal, and to expect more snow later this week.