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HERE. Skies are mostly cloudy-becoming-overcast. Mountain temps dropped to the low 20s overnight but have since rebounded into the mid to upper 20s in the pre-dawn hours. We should, however, have our best refreeze at the lower elevations since overnight of the 5th/6th.
Winds backed to the southwest around midnight and are blowing 15-20mph with gusts to 30mph. The most exposed anemometers have gusts to near 50.
Yesterday's storm over-delivered and the high density snow was just what we needed to mostly buffer the backcountry skier and rider from the old wind and sun crusts. Totals below:
LCC: 10"/0.75"SWE
BCC: 8-14"/0.6-1.0"SWE
PC ridgeline: 6-12"/0.5-0.88"SWE
(Note: SWE is snow-water-equivalent; ie: how much liquid water if you melted the snow)
For today, expect overcast skies with temperatures in the mid-20s up high, the mid-30s down low. Winds will be from the southwest, blowing 20mph along the ridgelines. The Ogden and Logan areas may see a trace to an inch during the day today.
Not much weather of great interest this week - off and on clouds, a flurry or two, etc with the potential of another storm system for late next weekend.
Only reported avalanche activity involved sluggish loose dry sluffs in steeper terrain with a few pockets of shallow soft slab initiated with ski cuts. (sluff photo by Mark White)
