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Yesterday, warm temps and strong sunshine warmed the snow on most slopes enough to make it wet. These slopes should be frozen solid with a hard ice crust this morning capped by a dusting of new snow. Only north facing slopes at mid and upper elevations still have dry powder.
This morning, 1-3 inches of snow has fallen. Temperatures plummeted into the single digits F at upper elevations. At about 7000 feet, temperatures are only in the low 20s F. Winds have been ripping across the high peaks this morning with gusts reaching 100 mph at 11,000 feet at 4 a.m. Otherwise, winds from the west and northwest have been averaging 15-25 mph gusting 30-40 mph.
Today will be cold and cloudy with snow falling but not accumulating. Very strong winds this morning should ease some today, but continue from the west and northwest. Temperatures will reach the teens and low 20s F.
Yesterday's warm temperatures heated the snow but caused few wet avalanches. However, a small, wet loose slide about 30 ft wide caught a person on a south facing slope on Davenport Hill in upper Little Cottonwood Canyon.
