Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking
North facing aspects exhibited a lot of sensitive wind slab activity, as well as wind drifed snow and reactive cornices. The Brian Head Zone has gotten 3 big storm cycles with southernly wind back to back with not much time in between for the snowpack to settle and consolidate.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>New snow with 30-33 mph gusts from the south. Very likley to trigger, small- medium sized slide. Observations of cracking/shooting cracks and remote triggering of wind slab and cornices. </p> <p>We've had a total of 21 inches of new snow in the past 48 hours with a lot of wind. </p>