Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Poor structure but mostly stable snow.</p>
Talking a lot about crusts today...wind crusts, rime crusts, melt freeze crusts, rain crusts - key points -
- what's their distribution?
- how well will new snow bond to them?
- what role do they play in fostering snow to facets?
All of this is more of a Level 3 type of info, or perhaps a blog post later, but suffice to say that some of them foster the growth of faceted grains, particularly when they are at or very near the surface. See photo of facet chains beneath the mid-Jan rime crust - found mid elevation northerly terrain - thin area where crust was at or near the surface.
Mostly stable snow.
Mostly Low today, rising to Moderate and perhaps even Considerable through the day tomorrow -
Snowpack
Variable conditions out there - wind, sun, and rime crusts....even completely dry up to mid-elevation south-facing...and it's almost February.