Avalanche Forecast
Issued: Jan 30th, 2015 9:30AM
The alpine rating is , the treeline rating is , and the below treeline rating is
jlammers,
Avalanche Canada
Summary
Confidence
Good - Due to the quality of field observations
Weather Forecast
The dry ridge of high pressure will hold on for Saturday bringing mainly sunny skies, light northwest winds and freezing levels at about 2000m. By Sunday a pacific low pressure system will bring generally light snowfall for Sunday and Monday (about 10cm each day). Winds are forecast to be strong from the southwest on Sunday, decreasing to moderate on Monday. Freezing levels for Sunday and Monday are forecast to hover around 1000m.
Avalanche Summary
No recent avalanches have been reported.
Snowpack Summary
Up to 50 cm of settled storm snow has been saturated by rain up to at least 2100m. Cooling has frozen the snow surface into a hard crust at most elevations. At the highest elevations you might find dense, stubborn wind slabs in lee terrain. At very low elevations, or on south-facing slopes during the day, you might find some areas with moist or wet snow on the surface.For now, at least, deeper snowpack weaknesses have become unreactive on account of the strong capping crust layer.
Valid until: Jan 31st, 2015 2:00PM
