Dial back your terrain choices if you are seeing more than 30 cm of new snow.
New snow and strong southerly winds have built fresh storm slabs above a saturated snowpack. Storm slab size and sensitivity to triggering will increase as snow accumulates throughout the day.
No notable recent avalanches have been reported in the region. In neighboring regions, several natural wet loose and wet slab avalanches were reported to size 2.5 on Monday. If you head into the backcountry you will likely see evidence of an avalanche cycle from the weekend.
Please continue to post your observations and photos to the Mountain Information Network.
Above 1400 m 10 -20 cm of snow sits atop the thoroughly saturated snowpack below it.
As freezing levels drop expect to find a wet snowpack quickly becoming uniform and cohesive. Until then watch for unstable snow on specific features, when snow is moist or wet.
Prior to this weekend's rain event, the snowpack was well settled with treeline depths 100-180 cm.
Tuesday Night
Mainly cloudy. Precipitation continues tonight with another 5-10 mm, local 15 mm. Westerley winds 40-60 km/h. Ridgetop low temperature -2. Freezing levels 1000-1400 m.
Wednesday
Cloudy with sunny periods and scattered flurries 10 mm. Southwesterly winds 20-40 km/h. Ridgetop high temperature -3. Freezing levels 700-1000 m.
Scattered flurries continue through the night, 2 - 8 mm. Freezing levels 500-1000 m
ThursdayMainly cloudy with scattered flurries, 10-20 mm. Southerly winds 40 km/h. Ridgetop high temperature 0 C. Freezing levels hover from 1300m.
FridayCloudy with flurries, 20-30 mm. Westerley 40-60 km/h winds. Ridgetop high temperature 0 C. Freezing levels hover near 1300 m.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
