Wind Slabs
- Alpin
- Limite forestière
- Sous la limite forestière
- Probabilité
- Possible
- Taille
- 1–2
Forecast 10 to 20 cm of snow and southerly wind on Sunday may form fresh wind slabs at upper elevations.
Forecast 10 to 20 cm of snow and southerly wind on Sunday may form fresh wind slabs at upper elevations.
Forecast 10 to 20 cm of snow and southerly wind on Sunday may form fresh wind slabs at upper elevations.
Cornices will become weak with sun and daytime warming. A cornice failure has the potential to trigger a persistent slab avalanche on the slope below.
Human-triggered persistent slab avalanches may still be possible on high north-facing slopes. They are most likely to be triggered by cornice falls or smaller avalanches in motion.
On Friday, no new avalanches were reported.
NOTE: Observations are currently very limited in this region.
Forecast 10 to 20 cm of snow and southerly wind on Sunday may form fresh wind slabs at upper elevations.
These slabs will overlie mostly crusty surfaces other than northerly aspects in the alpine where the snow surface remained dry.
Persistent weak layers from January, February, and March are buried 50 to 150 cm deep across the region, though their current reactivity remains uncertain.
At lower elevations, the rain-saturated snowpack thins quickly with elevation.
Saturday Night
Partly cloudy. 10 to 20 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 3 °C. Freezing level 2000 m.
Sunday
Moslty cloudy with flurries, 10 to 20 cm snow above 1700 m, rain below. Another 10 to 20 cm of snow overnight. 20 to 30 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 0 °C. Freezing level 2000 m.
Monday
Mix of sun and cloud with isolated flurries, 0 to 5 cm snow. 10 to 20 km/h southwest ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 1 °C. Freezing level 1900 m.
Tuesday
Mix of sun and cloud. 5 to 10 km/h south ridgetop wind. Treeline temperature 0 °C. Freezing level 1800 m.
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.