Warm temps, wind and snowfall are creating reactive windslabs in the Alpine and open TL features, identify if there is wind effect before stepping in to terrain
Strong SW winds are creating extensive fresh wind slabs in Alpine and Treeline terrain. These slabs will become increasing reactive with the incoming snow and continues strong winds.
Nice warm temps (-6) and some snowfall are helping refresh the tenure. Sunday night saw 6cm on the spray with moderate wind.
Tuesday should be the same, More snow (up to 10cm) and Moderate SW winds.
Something to keep in mind is the rising freezing levels to 2000m. Spray road is around 1850m.
Forecasters out in Burstall pass today were able to get wind slabs moving in open TL features. Although not very big, The windslab problem is there and it is becoming more likely with increasing snow, wind and Warm temps.
Continuous SW winds continue to redistribute the previous and new snow available for transport. Forecasters found a variety of windslabs in open TL features today. This sits on top of the Feb 19th interface, sun crusts on solar aspects and hard wind slabs everywhere else. This layer is perfect for a sliding layer. watch for reactivity as the load increases.
