Sunday afternoon will bring an end to the storm, but continued overnight wind and snowfall will keep the hazard elevated until freezing levels descend and the snowpack has had time to adjust to the load.
Recent Rain, snow and warm temperatures has begun to overload melt freeze crusts and facets from early season snowfalls causing large avalanches.
Continued snowfall accompanied by 120km/h southwest winds has formed touchy slabs
Weather models are conflicted on snowfall amounts for Saturday night with amounts between 8 to 20cm expected. Strong winds will continue overnight with a lull on Sunday where we may even see some sun. Freezing level is expected to remain around 1700m descending to valley bottom by Monday night.
60cm+ of wet snow and rain in the Cameron Lake area has arrived with extreme northwest winds and a freezing level around 1900m, continuing to load the snowpack. A weak crust facet combo formed in November is down 60cm, and additional crust/facet layers formed in October form the bottom of the snowpack.
A widespread natural cycle was observed on Saturday along the Red Rock and Akamina parkways, with avalanches to size 2 in the storm snow and some larger ones failing on deep persistent weak layers
