In the past 24 hours, we've received roughly 6.5 inches of new snow, which contains 0.62 inches of snow water equivalent (Upper Cottonwoods). The wind has been blowing from the northwest, averaging 5-10 mph with gusts into the 20s across the upper elevations.
As the storm exits today, we will see partly cloudy skies with the occasional snow shower today and Monday. On Tuesday, another storm is on tap, with hopefully another 3-6 inches of new snow. This storm will also usher in some cold air Tuesday into Wednesday before it closes off into a closed low that spins down in the four corners area through the weekend. The current GFS model run shows more storms through mid-month (fingers crossed).
Snow depths are roughly 6-16 inches above about 8,500'. The snowpack consists of three layers (see picture). The bottom layer in the photo is snow that fell from October 17th through the 19th. We theorized that this layer only exists around 9,000' on shady aspects. Below that, it's pretty spotty and melted out. Where we dug at 9,900 feet, this layer is crusted and not faceted.
On top of that layer is our October 30th through November 1st storm, and then over that layer is the most recent overnight snowfall (6.5" with 0.62 H20). The total height of the snowpack here was roughly 43 cm.
We did two extended column tests that were negative (no propagation).
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