A massive amount of rainfall was observed throughout the months of June and July in 2022 at Pigeon Lake, causing flooding in many summer village areas.

The map image is for the entire province of Alberta. Pigeon lake was observed to be an anomaly for the spring and summer of 2022 in terms of rainfall and overall precipitation.

Weather data is from the Alberta Climate Information System: Weather Station Data: Battle River Headwaters Station: which is located about 15 kilometres southwest of the lake.

Compilation of information shared by Community Science contributor Bob Gibbs.

Here are the instructions for producing the accumulated precipitation map (which is at this link as well)

The map came from the Alberta Rivers website (rivers.alberta.ca).

For short term/recent info you can click Precipitation Maps under the “hamburger” menu on the top left:

For the map you are interested in, and for all longer term and previous years you can find additional tools and maps under “past month and seasonal precipitation maps under the same menu drop down: