Salt River and Wyoming Ranges

Repeated melt-freeze cycles over the last several days have created a mostly stable snowpack when frozen. Overnight lows were five to ten degrees cooler than yesterday. These cool starting temperatures, cloudy skies and a thin layer of new snow should all help to keep snow surfaces frozen. However if skies clear early and surface crusts break down, isolated pockets of wet loose slides could become possible as the day warms. Monitor the warming of the snowpack, and move to cooler aspects if snow surfaces significantly soften.

( Discussion is generated from the previous day's afternoon forecast. )Expect mostly cloudy skies overnight, along with mountain snow showers, as an upper level trough moves over the area. The chance for new snow will decrease during the day. Overnight lows up high will be in the upper teens before rising into the mid-20s in the afternoon. Southwesterly ridgetop winds will shift to the northeast at 10 to 20 miles per hour.The general avalanche hazard is expected to be LOW Sunday morning. Isolated pockets of very shallow new wind slab may develop overnight and into Sunday. This blanket of new snow, along with colder temperatures and cloud cover, should keep old snow surfaces frozen. Monitor conditions, and move to a cooler aspect if surface crusts begin to break down.