Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>will the "heat" of the snow today get insulated by the new snow coming in? </p>
Friday morning may be the stablest period for a while?
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I'm sure that my thoughts are no different than everyone else's: as if we didn't have an odd, complex-enough snowpack already, the surface hoar and wet snow of now being combined with a big, wet, windy storm will likely make it that much more interesting/complex. </p>
in the sheltered areas there's already been plenty of good surface hoar development (even on the bark of the aspens, which seemed pretty cool), which will make for yet another layer of interest in our Dagwood snow sandwich unless the prefontal winds blow it all away and/or the early wet snow "destroys" the hoar. Today the snow was getting dampish even on the north facing slopes at 9k with decent pinwheeling