Loose Wet
- Alpin
- Limite forestière
- Sous la limite forestière
- Probabilité
- Possible
- Taille
- 1–1.5
A decent overnight snow surface refreeze is expected to have occurred last night. Inversion conditions have air temperatures in the mid to upper 30s on the peaks this morning so the refreeze will have been driven by radiational cooling of the snowpack under mostly clear skies. The refreeze may not be as strong under the forest canopy. Increasing cloud cover this afternoon may slow snow surface melt later in the day. In any locations where the surface crust that formed last night melts enough to become unsupportable, the potential for a wet snow avalanche is increased.
Look for signs of unstable wet snow including roller balls, pinwheels, recent wet loose avalanches, or deep unsupportable wet snow. Consider exiting areas that are in or below avalanche terrain if any of these signs of unstable wet snow are present.
(4/1/2022)
Recent small loose wet avalanche on N to NE aspect terrain. Forestdale Divide, Carson Pass, CA
Photo: Travis Feist