Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Again not alot of red flags in your face but one large one (Structure) and a few that I sure were occuring in other locations around the Wasatch. (Recent Avalanches i.e. Stupid Chute, Wind Loading in exposed locations and a Moderate amount of new snow.) </p>
Photo 1. Storm snow sluffing on steep rolover.
Photo 2. A few Rimed Stellar Crystals mixed in the precipitation.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The number one concern for tomorrow will likely be the storm slab which is around 30cm. With the amount of wind damaged terrain before this storm we should see a fair bit of these tomorrow. </p> <p>Same old story here. High consequence low probability. I figure there might be a possibility to see some some persistent slabs popping out from a large storm slab that steps down tomorrow. Likely outside the central Wasatch in a thin rocky place. Had to pry out ECT results on the facets today which were giving me failures 22cm up from the bottom of the pack on 2mm squares that appeared to be rounding at 9800' on a North aspect. HS there was 120cm. Other results showed Q2 failures just below the storm snow. Not ready to dismiss this problem yet.</p>
In upper lcc there was 12cm of new snow in the last 24 hrs at 9500. Storm totals in upper LCC around 28cm. With a slight density change in the storm snow.