August snowflakes fall in Canada. Here's where

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Daniel Martins

Digital Reporter

Monday, August 14, 2017, 8:17 PM - It's not unheard of to see some snowflakes in Canada's northern territories in mid-summer, but it's usually very rare south of 60.

Nevertheless, it does happen, and this year, the first people in southern Canada to see snow were people at Sunshine Village resort in Banff, Alta., and if the video below is any indication, it was more than a few flakes.

The video, captured below, was taken by Matt Wilson and posted on the resort's Facebook page, showing thick snowfall, though with no accumulation. Elsewhere in the range, Banff staff posted a photo of some rainy weather.

WATCH BELOW: Snow falls on Banff's Sunshine Village

Weather Network meteorologist Erin Wenckstern says an upper level trough is bringing cooler higher altitude temperatures and some moisture to the Rocky Mountains, with freezing levels of around 1,000 m, well below Sunshine Village's 1,600-metre perch.

Wenckstern says overnight lows both Monday and Tuesday are in the 2-4oC range, slightly lower than the seasonal average of 6oC. Daytime highs on Monday only reached 13oC at the site, down from a historical average of 22oC at this time of the year, and only around 7oC in the morning.

Despite the moisture at the higher levels, the trough has brought little relief to areas of southwestern B.C. in the grip of a major wildfire emergency. It's so far resulted in little more than passing showers, and thunderstorms that have been marked by "dry lightning", which is lightning produced by storms that also produce little, if any, rain at the surface.

WATCH BELOW: Bishop Bluffs, B.C., wildfire captured from the sky, zero percent contained