Skies are partly-trending-mostly cloudy.
Mountain temperatures are in the upper teens and low 20s.
Winds are from the west-northwest, blowing 15mph with gusts to 25. Along the highest ridgelines, anemometers are spinning 40-45mph with gusts to 60. They are just getting started.
Riding and travel conditions have been nothing short of spectacular but get it while you can. Southerly aspects have a breakable to trapdoor crust but our Wasatch finest is about to get wind jacked.
All good things come to an end?....today's winds will wreak havoc with the snow.....
We'll see increasing clouds and winds today with of a storm system passing by to the north. A mostly dry cold front pushes through mid-afternoon, allowing temperatures to drop to the teens today and the single digits for tonight. Winds will only gather steam and start to howl out of the northwest. Unfortunately, we'll only see an inch or two for the trouble. Our partners here at the NWS is calling it a "squally storm", with strong winds and poor visibility by late afternoon, particularly in areas north of I-80. High pressure along with a warming trend follows for the rest of the week with a storm system diving well south of the area over the weekend. The long range models look interesting.
Skiers and riders triggered a few lingering soft slabs of wind blown snow on a variety of aspects in the upper elevation bands yesterday. These were roughly 8-12" deep and 60' wide. The largest looks to be a 2' deep and 100' wide soft slab on south facing Little Superior (Dave Kelly photo below). Skiers also triggered a soft slab on the north side of LSB (Little Superior) 16" deep and 100' wide.
Rounding out the activity were reports of both dry and wet loose (and shallow wet slab) avalanches. These sluffs were generally shallow in nature but one skier was carried briefly in a wet loose sluff near Dougs Drop in Silver Fork of BCC.
