Boletín de aludes

Provo

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Lo esencial

The avalanche danger is CONSIDERABLE on all mid and upper elevation slopes - natural avalanches are possible, and human triggered slides likely. The danger is MODERATE at the low elevations. Both new snow and wet snow avalanches can be easily triggered. The danger will peak during periods of heavy snowfall or where the winds pick up, and may reach HIGH with a natural avalanche cycle occurring after frontal passage.

Dangerous avalanche conditions today will require careful snowpack evaluation, cautious route finding and conservative decision making. Avoid avalanche run out zones.

Problemas de aludes

  • Storm Slabs

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    Probabilidad
    Very Likely
    Tamaño
    3

    At least 6" of new snow has fallen, probably with more up high. With more snow on the way, expect an active avalanche day.

    Early reports of a density inversion in the new snow should make new snow avalanches at the mid and upper elevations easy to trigger on steep slopes this morning. Depths could increase to 1 to 2 feet by afternoon in terrain where the next front piles up additional snow or in wind drifted areas. Continuously steep terrain in the Provo area mountains magnifies even small slides, allowing them to entrain snow and run long distances. A slide triggered in dry snow may change into a wet snow slide as it moves down slope today, running further than expected.

    Wind blown snow drifts of will increase in depth and coverage as the winds pick up this morning with the frontal passage, and natural avalanches are possible. Signs of wind drifts include cracking of the snow and looking for smooth, rounded pillows of snow that are denser than the snow around them.

    Cornices forming today are very sensitive. Stay well back from corniced edges when traveling on ridge lines - they will break back further than expected. And avoid travel beneath them.

  • Loose Wet

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    Probabilidad
    Likely
    Tamaño
    3

    It’s an even playing field on all aspects below about 9,000', with the already wet snowpack getting a good soaking yesterday afternoon. Now hidden by a veneer of new snow, the old saturated snowpack is still warm and wet. So on all aspects below about 9,000’, expect any new snow slides to quickly become wet snow slides, possibly gouging into the old wet snow. Wet avalanche debris piles up instead of spreading out, and even small slides can deposit 3 or 4 feet of cement like debris against trees, in gullies or on roads. Avoid even the smallest terrain traps such as gullies or creek beds and avoid runout zones.

    Wet debris from Monday's natural slide off east facing Kessler, Big Cottonwood Canyon, crossing the summer road. Nina Lorentzen photo.

Special Announcement

Daily early morning avalanche forecasts will end Sunday, April 14. We will issue early morning forecasts on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of Easter weekend (April 19-20). Throughout the rest of April, we will issue intermittent updates with any snowfall and we will continue posting observations.

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Recent Activity

No new observations from the Provo area mountains. To the north, yesterday, wet loose sluffs were easy to trigger with skis on all aspects below about 9,000’.

A close call Monday when a natural slide crossed the summer road in Cardiff illustrates the danger of avalanche runout zones.

Snow and Weather

Storm totals at the mid elevations in the Provo area mountains are about 6", with 2" down low once it switched from rain to snow. Yesterday, prefrontal rain bands probably soaked the snow as high as 9,000’ before the rain/snow line dropped below 7,000’. Water totals from the combination of rain and snow are up to about .77. Temperatures have cooled into the twenties at the mid and low elevations, and the northwesterly winds are 5 to 10 mph, with gusts to 20 mph at 9 and 10,000’. The highest peaks to the north averaged as high as 20 to 35 mph overnight, with gusts in the 40s and 50s. Today: as the cold front arrives this morning, snow rates will intensify, with 1 to 2” per hour possible. An additional 6 to 10” of snow are expected today at the upper elevations. The northwesterly winds will increase, with 10 to 25 mph averages at 9,500’, and the higher peaks averaging 25 to 35 mph, with gusts in the 50s. Temperatures will remain in the teens and 20s.

Additional Info

Spring is here and it is time to adjust our travel. Learn what to watch for during spring avalanche conditions when the snow becomes wet.

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This information does not apply to developed ski areas or highways where avalanche control is normally done. This forecast is from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This forecast describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.

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