Sunshine Village welcomes first day of summer with snow

Snow falling in Sunshine Village in Banff National Park on June 21 -- the first day of summer. Heavy rainfall is expected throughout the weekend for the national park. (Facebook: Sunshine Village)

Don’t get the skis out just yet, but Sunshine Village got some fresh powder Saturday morning.

The popular Banff ski resort posted a photo on its Facebook page at around 7:30 a.m. of a snowy scene there Saturday morning, which happens to be the first day of summer.

With heavy rainfall predicted throughout the weekend for Banff and much of southern Alberta, Sunshine’s website posted a weather forecast that calls for a high of four degrees, with up to 25 centimetres of snow.

According to CTV Calgary’s Danielle Savoni, heavy rain and wind is expected throughout Saturday for the city, with 40 to 80 millimetres of rain forecast to fall.

In the foothills, there could be 100 mm of rain.

Sunday is forecast to be cloudy in Calgary with scattered showers in the area but it should be drier than Saturday.

As far as Sunshine Village goes, Saturday’s snowstorm might be pretty late in the season, but the ski resort also got a big dump of snow last Aug. 24.

Calgary is welcoming 15,000 Rotarians from around the world Saturday who are in the city for a convention at the BMO Centre.