Glacier

Spring is in the air.

Pack your sun screen and you shades, and dial back your terrain selection on solar aspects during the heat of the day.

Friday: Field teams observed a few size 1-1.5 loose snow avalanches triggered by the sun on steep slopes. There was similar activity in the highway corridor.

Thursday: A field team triggered a size 1.5 storm slab on a NE aspect at treeline, and there was a MIN report of an avalanche involvement on the Dome exit.

We are into a cooling/drying trend after our warm wet weather from earlier this week, with high pressure over Rogers Pass.

Tonight: Clear periods. Alpine Low -11*C. Light NE ridgetop winds.

Sat: Sun, convective clouds in the PM. High -8*C. Light N wind.

Sun: Sunny periods, isolated flurries. Low -11*C, High -10*C. Light W wind.

Mon: Flurries.

Fluctuating temps have settled the upper snowpack & created a surface crust below 1500m (higher on solars).

Up to 45cm of snowfall early in the week, with warm temps and a brief wind spike, created storm slabs over the Feb 26th interface - wind effect in open areas, small surface hoar and facets in sheltered terrain, and sun crust on steep solars.