Loose Wet
- Alta montaña
- Límite del bosque
- Bajo el límite del bosque
- Probabilidad
- Unlikely
- Tamaño
- 1
With clear skies overnight and near freezing air temperatures, a decent to strong overnight snow surface refreeze is expected to have occurred due to radiational cooling. As daytime warming progresses, areas of surface wet snow will form on sun exposed slopes. Little to no snow cover remains on the vast majority of SE-S-SW-W aspects. Instability concerns on these aspects are confined to highly localized areas where snow cover actually exists. E aspects continue to hold significant snow cover around the vast majority of the forecast area. Surface wet snow several inches deep will exist on E aspects by this afternoon. Sun angles are still not quite high enough to create large amounts of snow surface melt on NW-N-NE aspects 35 degrees and steeper. As a result, a lesser degree of surface wet snow formation will exist on steep northerly aspects today. With free water drainage well established on all aspects, wet snow instability is expected to be limited to human triggered roller balls and human triggered loose wet sluffs in steep terrain that require a push to set into motion. Loose wet avalanches large enough to bury or injure a person are unlikely today. Keep in mind that terrain traps such as gullies and cliffs below can greatly magnify the consequences of very small avalanches that would otherwise be too small to bury or injure a person.