Today, wet avalanches will occur predictably as the snow warms and becomes wet. Most of these will be wet loose slides as in the video below. What this means is that the avalanche danger from wet avalanches starts LOW this morning but rises to CONSIDERABLE as the snow heats up. Most wet slides will occur on mid and upper elevations slopes facing east, south, and west. Wet avalanches are possible but less likely at low elevations that received rain with Tuesday's storm and have already gone through a cycle of wet slides.

Video below of a wet avalanche from Cardiac Ridge in Cardiff Fork of Big Cottonwood Canyon (M. White).

The most likely dry snow avalanches today will be soft slabs of wind drifted snow. These wind slabs have a poor bond with the underlying snow and may remain unstable a little longer than normal. Snow unaffected by the wind may still sluff easily as it did yesterday on Kessler Peak.

Very strong south winds blew during the storm on Tuesday and top loaded some slopes. This morning at upper elevations strong northwest winds may have cross loaded other slopes. Look for signs of fresh wind drifts which look smooth, rounded, and pillowly. Usually I try to enter a slope from an different side or lower down to avoid these wind slabs.