Hydro-Québec GMON SWE and snow depth (rolling 10-day feed)#

hydroquebec-stations · theme stations · live

Hourly SWE from GMON passive-gamma sensors and snow depth across Hydro-Québec’s watersheds. The open feed keeps only about ten days; longer records are in global_snow_networks’ archive (stations.archive.load) and, before October 2026, in CanSWE. Station codes are Hydro-Québec identifiants (1-10613). Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: no commercial use.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier

inv_gdf = esd.stations.inventory(aoi, networks="hydroquebec")
obs_ds = esd.stations.load(inv_gdf, variables=["swe", "snwd"],
                           time="2023-10/2024-09")

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Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

hydroquebec (default)

stations

none

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Québec

rolling ~10 days

hours

Opendatasoft API, dataset donnees-hydrometeorologiques; no account

Where each route points#

hydroquebec — Hydro-Québec open data (Opendatasoft) live

https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/api/explore/v2.1

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

other

—

float64

—

no

precip

mm

float64

—

no

rh

%

float64

—

no

snwd

cm

float64

—

no

swe

cm

float64

—

no

temp_max

°C

float64

—

no

temp_min

°C

float64

—

no

wind_dir

degrees

float64

—

no

wind_spd

km/h

float64

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution, no commercial use)

Cite the data as

Hydro-Québec. Données hydrométéorologiques, https://donnees.hydroquebec.com/explore/dataset/donnees-hydrometeorologiques/ (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.stations.load