Loose Wet
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Likely
- Dimensione
- 3
Today, wet avalanches will occur predictably as the snow warms and becomes wet. Most of these will be wet loose slides as in the video below. What this means is that the avalanche danger from wet avalanches starts LOW this morning but rises to CONSIDERABLE as the snow heats up. Most wet slides will occur on mid and upper elevations slopes facing east, south, and west. Wet avalanches are possible but less likely at low elevations that received rain with Tuesday's storm and have already gone through a cycle of wet slides.
Also, avoid being under any slope with a large glide crack. These are large cracks where the snow rest on a smooth ground surface and begins creeping/sliding downhill. At seemingly random times, these slopes can produce glide avalanches. Look for these large obvious cracks and just avoid hanging out beneath them.
Video below of a wet avalanche from Cardiac Ridge in Cardiff Fork (M. White).
