Avalanche Forecast
Regions: Little Yoho.
Overall, the avalanche hazard will be lower over the next few days as we enter a cooler period following a warm spell, but sunny periods midday Monday will increase the potential for the new snow to fail on recent crusts.
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Avalanche Summary
Pretty quiet Sunday with mainly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures.
Solar heating Friday and Saturday led to the peak heating event so far this season with widespread loose wet avalanche activity on steep solar slopes. As upper snowpack crusts broke down, small alpine point releases gained mass at lower elevations reaching up to sz 2.
The heating also led to cornice releases and a few significant persistent slabs failing in the alpine in neighboring areas as well.
Snowpack Summary
A few cm of new snow sits on surface crusts that exist to ridgetops on solar aspects, and on all aspects to around 2600m.
On high north-facing alpine slopes, 5-15 cm of dry snow sits over firmer surfaces.
A settled mid-pack sits over the Jan facets down 90-150 cm, with a well-settled lower snowpack below.
Weather Summary
Freezing levels peaked around 2200m Sunday with periods of snowfall/rain.
Overnight freezing levels will drop to 1500m before returning to 2200m Monday with some potential for sunny periods midday.
West winds will increase through Monday reaching strong values in the alpine and will bring trace amounts of precip overnight into Tuesday.