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The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports 35 ºF this morning and there is 85" of total snow with 102% of average SWE for the date. It's 32 ºF at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station, and south winds are currently averaging around 25 mph. It will be warm again and heightened avalanche conditions exist at all elevations in the backcountry today.
A dry and mild southwesterly flow will prevail across the region through today. The next series of weather disturbances to impact Utah will begin late tonight and continue through Friday night. It will be mostly sunny and increasingly warm in the mountains today, with high temperatures at 9000' expected be around 44 ºF, with 11 to 15 mph south wind. Snow is likely tonight with a low temperature around 21º F, and increasing 15-25 mph south winds. It will snow tomorrow morning, with 1 to 3 inches possible, 36 ºF high temperatures expected at 8500', and 10 to 16 mph west wind.
It was active in the backcountry on Monday, with riders triggering numerous wind and soft slab avalanches in the Central Bear River Range and widespread natural wet loose avalanches in sunny terrain. Cloud cover and wind helped to limit the wet activity yesterday, but a large and destructive wet avalanche was observed crossing the Crimson Trail and snapping trees Near Spring Hollow in Lower Logan Canyon.
One of many rider triggered avalanches from the Tony Grove Area on 3/25/19
Natural wet loose avalanches were widespread on sunny slopes on Monday. Fewer occurred yesterday due to cooling from cloud cover and a breeze.
- A skier was caught, carried, and mostly buried while skinning up a drifted slope near Perry Reservoir on Monday, 3/25/19. Report is HERE
- Saturday, 3/23/19, a skier triggered a scary 1 to 2 foot deep and 150' wide avalanche running on a buried persistent weak layer near Danish Pass. The avalanche ran on a 32 degree, north-northeast facing slope at around 8800' in elevation. Report is HERE