Wind Slabs
- Alpin
- Limite forestière
- Sous la limite forestière
- Probabilité
- Unlikely
- Taille
- 1–2
Expect to find small wind slabs in high alpine lee terrain. Stronger winds forecast for Friday may result in wider spread windslab development.
Conditions are generally good. Watch for isolated wind-slabs in steep lee alpine terrain.
Expect to find small wind slabs in high alpine lee terrain. Stronger winds forecast for Friday may result in wider spread windslab development.
No avalanches were observed or reported in the Yoho forecast region today.
Surface hoar development to 4mm on can be found on shaded aspects below treeline. Suncrust exist on steep solar aspects and isolated wind slabs can be found in the high alpine. There is 10-25 cm of facetted snow over the Feb 3 crust. In shallower snowpack areas weak facet layers can be found in the mid and lower pack.
Isolated flurries for Tuesday night and Wednesday with total accumulations less then 5 cm by end of day on Wednesday. Ridgetop winds are forecast to be light to moderate from the west. Freezing Levels will rise to 1800 m on Wednesday.
For more information be sure to check AvCan's Mountain Weather.