The daily seasonal spring rhythm will be less pronounced over the next few days. Watch for isolated increasing hazard with prolonged solar effect.
Weather Forecast
Rain/snow showers are expected overnight Sunday, more in front ranges east of the region but isolated convection remains possible. Freezing levels will fall to valley bottom overnight and are forecasted to rise to 1800m, 2000m for the Icefields region, on Monday.
Snowpack Summary
The upper snowpack has transitioned through a series of melt-freeze cycles at at treeline and below on all aspects (and into the alpine on solar aspects). This seasonal spring rhythm is less pronounced over the next few days with cooling temps. On north facing alpine slopes up to 20cm of settled storm snow overlies previous old dry surfaces.
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.