Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Pretty gusty east and northeast winds today moving plenty of new snow around and keeping the temperatures a bit cool along the ridge lines. East and northeast winds are a bit unusual and the south facing slopes were getting some decent wind loading throughout the day. I would suspect these will be a minor issue tomorrow with warmer temps and decreasing winds?</p>
I was bit surprised with the gusty winds today, maybe the high pressure moving in kept the winds brisk. The new snow and gusty winds kept the snow moving around creating fresh wind drifts on the south half of the compass.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>New snow and gusty winds kept the wind slab problem the big hazard today mostly on the south half of the compass. I would think many of these will have settled-out tomorrow. A side note is the layer of graupel I was finding and some of these wind slabs might be a liitle senstive on this layer?</p> <p>Not much wet issues today in the higher terrain, but I would suspect more wet problems with increasing temperatures. The new snow from Sunday will quickly take on some heat and become more unstable.</p>
It felt like a mild winter day this morning, but things changed quickly once the sun started to warm things up. Some minor heat related issues, but did not notice too much wet activity. Very high north facing slopes still have nice soft powder, but lose a little elevation and the new snow quickly became damp and sticky.