Tetons

At upper elevations new snow and wind have created soft surface slabs to 12 inches in depth on steep, lee slopes. Backcountry users have the potential to trigger these slabs and sloughs that could grow to dangerous size particularly in the northern end of the range where more snow has fallen. Periods of sunshine will create the chance of slides releasing on steep, sunlit slopes. Significant avalanches are unlikely at the mid and lower elevations but be alert to locally deeper snow and terrain traps. Warm forecasted temperatures on the valley floors have the potential to release dangerous, hard snow from rooftops

Snow is to develop by Thursday morning and continue throughout the day. Winds from the southwest with twenty mile per hour averages that are to accompany the beginning of the snowfall are forecast to diminish to near ten mile per hour averages from the South through most of the day.The general avalanche hazard is expected to be Low in the morning when it is expected that isolated pockets of new and recently fallen snow may be triggered in steep terrain above 9000 feet. The hazard may increase to Moderate in the afternoon in any area where significant accumulation of new snow occurs, particularly if wind averages are stronger than currently forecast. This increased hazard could occur at any elevation as weak faceted snow exists throughout the region.