Overnight freeze will create supportive crusts that may breakdown late in the day. The timing and extent depend on winds, sun, rain, and daytime heating. If the crust breaks down, be well away from avalanche terrain.
Weather Forecast
Wednesday night may bring 4 cm of snow and -4 C. Thursday will be a trace snow, high -3 C, and freezing level 2000 meters with some gusting 40km/hr winds. Friday will be cloudy with isolated flurries, trace of snow, and Alpine temperatures Low -5 C and High 0 C, with freezing level 2200 meters. Precipitation may be light rain at lower elevations.
Snowpack Summary
Below treeline the snowpack is trending isothermal in the afternoons depending on the overnight freeze. Higher elevations maintains the crust with on-going multiple melt-freeze cycles. On north facing alpine slopes up to 15cm of surface snow overlies previous old dry surfaces.
Confidence
Freezing levels are uncertain
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.