The general avalanche hazard will be LOW in the early morning hours and will increase to MODERATE after snow surfaces soften. As temperatures warm and snow surfaces soften the potential for larger triggers such high marking snow machines to trigger larger and deeper slabs on steep avalanche prone slopes will increase.
Wet slabs are possible on steep avalanche prone slopes after significant warming occurs. These slabs could be human triggered and have potential to fail on faceted snow near the base of the snowpack or on the ground.
( Discussion is generated from the previous day's afternoon forecast. )Another quick moving, weak system will pass over the region during the early morning hours. Snow showers associated with this system could bring an inch or two of new snow and may linger through the morning hours. Skies are expected to mostly to partly cloudy in the afternoon. Temperatures will drop into the 20s overnight and rise into the 30s in the mountains and into the 40s in the valleys. Winds will be light at around 10 miles per hour and back from the northwest to the southwest.The general avalanche hazard is expected to be LOW in the morning and may increase to MODERATE at the higher elevations in the afternoon if significant warming occurs. Pockets of surface slab up to 18 inches in depth and shallow loose snow sluffs will become increasingly sensitive to human triggers as the day warms and will be a threat to people who venture onto very steep slopes, into cliff areas, steep chutes, couloirs and other extreme terrain features.
