Loose Wet
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Possible
- Dimensione
- 1–2
The combination of strong sunshine, much warmer daytime temperatures, and less wind will cause enough warming for a layer of wet unconsolidated snow to form on the surface in many places. On steep slopes, this wet loose snow could slide down the slope entraining more wet snow as it moves. These wet loose snow avalanches typically start small (D1) but could grow large enough to cause problems (D2) on long steep slopes or in areas where terrain traps like cliffs, gullies, trees, etc magnify the consequences of any size avalanche. Sunny E-SE-S-SW-W aspects should experience the most warming and will be most prone to having wet snow on them. While the northerly aspects should experience less warming, wet snow may form on some of those aspects as well due to the high sun angles at this time of year and warm temperatures. Today's warming could also start to weaken cornices that survived the NE wind event.
The conditions will change quickly today. Be alert for signs of wet snow instabilities like rollerballs, pinwheels, wet sticky snow, or ankle-deep wet snow. These clues mean it's time to move to a colder aspect without wet snow or switch to lower angle slopes where the wet snow won't slide downhill easily.
