Loose Wet
- Alta quota
- Limite del bosco
- Sotto il limite del bosco
- Probabilità
- Possible
- Dimensione
- 1–2
Like yesterday, clear skies overnight allowed the snow to radiate enough heat into space for the surface to refreeze despite temperatures remaining above freezing. As the day warms up, intense sunshine and warm weather should melt through this refreeze. Gusty SW winds may help slow the melting process down on some upper elevation wind-exposed slopes. Still, most places should experience enough warming that sluffs of wet loose snow could become possible today. These wet loose avalanches may start small (D1) but could end up entraining enough wet snow to cause problems (D2) on longer slopes. Terrain traps like cliffs, gullies, creekbeds, etc could make the smaller wet loose avalanches have larger consequences. The most sun-exposed E-SE-S-SW-W aspects will be the most prone to wet snow instabilities, but the high sun angles and warm temperatures could allow wet snow to form on some of the NW-N-NE aspects as well.
Snow conditions will change from supportable to wet loose quickly today. Signs that wet loose avalanches may be possible include things like roller balls, pinwheels, wet sticky snow, or ankle-deep wet snow. Recreating before the snow becomes unsupportable or using terrain less steep than 30 to 35 degrees without steeper slopes above can help minimize exposure to potential wet snow instabilities.