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Forecast for the Skyline Area Mountains

Brett Kobernik
Issued by Brett Kobernik for
Monday, April 11, 2022
The majority of the terrain on the Skyline has a LOW avalanche danger.
You can pretty much travel around most anywhere and be at ease that you won't trigger an avalanche.
However, there is still a chance that a person could trigger a large and deadly avalanche on northerly facing slopes steeper than 30˚ above about 10,000'.
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Current Conditions
Temperatures have remained in the mid 20s for the last 36 hours. The southwest wind was strong on Sunday but tapered off later in the day.
Mountain Weather
We are going to get blasted with southwest wind today with very strong speeds by this afternoon. We'll have clouds and warmer temperatures with highs into the upper 30s to low 40s. A period of unsettled weather moves in tonight through the rest of the week with periods of snow possible. The main event is tonight with 5 to 9 inches of new snow. There will be a few more periods of snow on Tuesday and Wednesday and maybe a slight chance Thursday. All said and done, we should be looking at a foot of new snow.
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Avalanche Problem #1
Persistent Weak Layer
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No big change in avalanche conditions. I continue to be wary of the Persistent Weak Layer that formed in Jan/Feb. The amount of places that you can trigger one of these has really shrank. Places that are still likely are very steep northerly facing slopes above about 10,000'. If you want to travel on north facing slopes just make sure you're not on slopes steeper than 30˚ and there are not slopes steeper than 30˚ above you.
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