It's a good idea to keep avoiding all avalanche terrain and spend time at the ski resort. Let the snowpack adjust.
Hard and soft slabs have developed from the warm temperatures, wind and small snowfall amounts. These sit on top of cold snap facet interface. Sun crusts are also found on steep solar aspects around treeline
Surface snow becoming moist and wet with rain and high freezing levels.
This layer is getting getting buried deeper and deeper over time. The weight and amount of new snow is slowly increasing, which will increase the size of any potential avalanches.
No field team or reports today.
No field teams or road patrols today. Looking at the weather stations, our highest stations 2300m it is well above zero degrees. From that we can speculate that there is a natural avalanche cycle happening on most aspects at most elevations. A good time to avoid avalanche terrain and let this storm move through and get back to normal temperatures.
Tuesday will remain cloudy and windy from the SW. Freezing levels may drop a bit down to 2000m, but thats still quite high for January!
More details can be found in the Mountain Weather Forecast.
