The extended drought has weakened our snowpack, the upcoming storm will be the first significant new load in the past month. Go out cautiously and assess how the new snow is bonding to the underlying surfaces.
Storm snow will arrive Friday night and into Saturday with strong ridgetop winds, likely forming new reactive windslabs in the alpine and treeline.
No new avalanches have been observed in the past 3 days.
Surface snow is wind effected at all elevations. This overlies facetted snow in many areas, old hard windslabs, or a melt freeze crust below treeline and on steep solar slopes into the alpine. Generally, the snowpack is faceting at all elevations with continued drought conditions.
Snowpack depths at treeline range from 50 - 120 cm.
Fri
Cloudy, 0 - 5 cm of new snow, ridgetop winds 60 km/hr from the southwest. Treeline high of 0°C.
Sat
10 cm new snow overnight and up to 5 cm through the day. Ridgetop winds 50 - 70 km/hr from the southwest. Treeline high of -4°C.
Sun
Ongoing light snowfall, 2 - 10 cm through the day. Ridgetop wind 10 - 30 km/hr, treeline high of -13°C, low of -25°C.
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