Regions
Banff Yoho Kootenay.
The initial solar input on Thursday will likely shed the recent storm snow on southerly aspects causing an increase in avalanche activity.
Weather Forecast
A clearing trend for the rest of the week, will bring warming temperatures and increase solar inputs. Day time high temps for thursday, friday will reach 7C. Forecasted wind values are generally light.
Snowpack Summary
10-20cm of new snow overlays a variate of surfaces depending on aspects and elevations. A supportive melt freeze crust is present below this new snow in most areas excluding high north aspects. Many areas exhibit a cohesive midpack over the basal facets, while other thin areas have weak facets to the ground.
Avalanche Summary
No new avalanches observed or reported.
Problems
Loose Wet
Loose Wet avalanches are the release of wet unconsolidated snow or slush. These avalanches typically occur within layers of wet snow near the surface of the snowpack, but they may quickly gouge into lower snowpack layers. Like Loose Dry Avalanches, they start at a point and entrain snow as they move downhill, forming a fan-shaped avalanche. Other names for loose-wet avalanches include point-release avalanches or sluffs. Loose Wet avalanches can trigger slab avalanches that break into deeper snow layers.