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RegisterMar 19th, 2021–Mar 22nd, 2021
Waterton Lakes.
The arrival of cooler weather this weekend will form a thick surface crust and stabilize the snowpack. Weather models vary for snowfall amounts on Monday, if we see more than 10cm be on the lookout for pockets of windslab.
Saturday: Sunny with cloudy periods and isolated wet flurries. Alpine High 3 C. Wind SW 20 km/h gusting to 70 km/h. Freezing level: 1600 metres.
Sunday: Mainly cloudy with isolated flurries. Alpine High -7 °C. Wind SW: 35 km/h. Freezing level at valley bottom.
Monday: Mainly cloudy with scattered flurries, up to 5 cm. Freezing level at valley bottom.
A thick crust exists on the surface to ridgetop except on high north faces. This tops 30-50cm moist snow above of the Feb 14 facet layer which is above hard surfaces in most places. The remainder of the midpack is made up of dense moist facets and decomposing crusts, with early season ice crusts forming the base.
No new avalanches observed