Salt River and Wyoming Ranges

The general avalanche hazard is LOW but will increase as the day progresses. Repeated melt-freeze cycles have helped to create a mostly stable snowpack. Caution is advised on steep avalanche prone slopes that are underlain by a persistent weak layer of depth hoar, especially if skies remain clear and significant warming occurs.

( Discussion is generated from the previous day's afternoon forecast. )Snow shower activity will be widespread overnight as an upper level trough and cold front moves through. Accumulations of two to four inches are likely at the higher elevations by morning. On Thursday skies will be mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Accumulations of an inch are expected. Temperatures will rise from overnight lows in the 20s into the 30s in the mountains and into the 40s in the valleys. Winds will be southwest to west at 15 to 20 miles per hour. The general avalanche hazard is expected to be LOW. At the upper elevations new loose snow sluffs and isolated pockets of new soft slab up to eight inches in depth could be human triggered in steep avalanche starting zones. Avalanches are unlikely at the mid and lower elevations.