Weather
- Air Temp
- 41 F
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Rain Elevation
- 6500
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Broken skies and a balmy 41 F. A definite beat down for the valley floor snowpack last night. The highway was clear and there is grass showing in the ditches and hayfields of Nyack flats.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2 R2
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 6500 ft
I was able to use binoculars and see avalanches in every drainage I drove past. All but a few were below 6500'. They appeared to be roughly 18-24" deep, on E, S and NE aspects, and ran nearly their full path. These were all crisp and I presume they ran sometime very early in the morning to mid morning when the precip had stopped. There were 2 older crowns that I could barely make out around 7,000' that looked to be much deeper and had been mostly filled in by wind transported snow. I would guess these happened earlier in the storm and were much thicker wind slabs.