Loose Wet
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Possible
- Dimensione
- 1
Warm temperatures in most places combined with some cloud cover should have prevented much of an overnight refreeze. This morning, warm weather and strong sunshine will quickly destroy any refreeze that might have occurred exposing deep wet snow. This melting will occur on the E-SE-S aspects first and move to all other aspects during the day. The thin cloud cover forecasted for today may help spread the warming to aspects that usually receive less sun. Loose wet avalanches will become possible on steep slopes once the surface crust melts. Some of these could entrain enough snow to bury or injure a person on large steep slopes or in areas where terrain traps exist.
Starting early to try and catch the short window of supportable snow and finishing before the snow becomes deep and wet represents one way to avoid loose wet avalanche problems. Once the snow starts getting wet and deep, it is time to avoid avalanche terrain by recreating on lower angle terrain without steep slopes above.
