Avalanche Forecast

Moderate - Due to the number of field observations

We're looking at seasonal temperatures, light winds, a mix of sun and cloud with occasional isolated flurries for most of the week. MONDAY: Cloudy with sunny breaks. Freezing levels around 1100m with light northerly winds. TUESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. Freezing levels around 500m with light northerly winds. WEDNESDAY: A mix of sun and cloud. Freezing levels around 500m with light westerly winds.

No new reported.

SOUTHERN AREAS (e.g. Coquihalla): 10-20cm of snow from last week appears to be bonding well to the previous rain-soaked snow surface up to treeline elevations. At alpine elevations, up to 40cm of storm snow fell with some wind slabs forming on northerly aspects.NORTHERN AREAS (e.g. Duffey Lake): Up to 45 cm of fresh snow by Friday morning brought the storm snow totals to over a metre, which was all redistributed by moderate to strong southerly winds. This resulted in touchy storm and wind slabs bonding poorly to the previous snow surface that includes facets and large surface hoar on sheltered slopes and/or a sun crust on steep sun-exposed aspects, as well as wind-affected surfaces (e.g. hard wind slab, sastrugi, scoured crust, etc.) in exposed areas. Weaknesses within the recent storm snow have been settling - I'd remain suspicious of the bond of the storm snow in the alpine to the previous cold snow surface from over a week ago.