Avalanche Forecast

Fair - Due to variable snowpack conditions for the entire period

Overnight and Friday: Some light precipitation is expected over the Northern parts of the region. Strong Northwesterly winds should diminish to moderate Westerly during the day. Alpine temperatures rising up to about -2.0 during the day as the freezing level rises to about 1300 metres.Saturday: Expect 5-10 cms of snow as a trough moves across the interior regions. Winds should be moderate Westerly with strong Northwesterly gusts. Alpine temperatures are expected to cool down to about -7.0 as a cold front associated with the trough moves through the region.Sunday: Another ridge of high pressure is expected to build over the interior, bringing cooler temperatures and drier conditions.

Natural avalanches were reported up to size 3.0 from Wednesday. The new storm slab and wind slabs have been reported to be easily triggered and result in avalanches size 2.0-2.5. Some areas experienced remote triggering of the storm slab from adjacent terrain.

There is a lot of variability in the new snow amounts across the region. New storm slabs are between 10-40 cms deep, and new wind slabs are up to 70 cms deep due to strong Northwest winds transporting the available new snow. Tests are showing easy to moderate shears at the storm snow interface. There are a couple of deeper buried surface hoar and crust layers that have been giving hard resistant planar results in snow profile tests. These deeper layers are not expected to be triggered by light additional loads, but may be triggered by storm snow avalanches in motion, or cornice fall.