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Currently-
High clouds drifted into the region overnight and temperatures are rather balmy, registering in the mid to upper 20's. Southerly winds increased slightly since midnight, humming into the 30's along the high ridges. Riding and turning conditions are a bit hit or miss and there's no lack of hard old tracks, slick crusts, and scratchy snow. But wait... there's more! While it's in short supply, shallow cold snow is still found on wind sheltered, upper elevation, northerly facing slopes.
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For today-
As high pressure shifts to the east we can expect another day of partly sunny skies with temperatures soaring into the upper 40's. Southerly winds ramp up throughout the day, gusting into the 40's by about dinnertime and into the 60's late tonight.
Futurecast-
It looks like a slight change in the weather pattern develops late in the weekend through early next week with the first in a series of storms sliding into the region late Saturday, continuing into Sunday. Not a big storm, but enough for a dense, spongy refresh.
Whilst traveling in Upper Chalk Creek midweek, I spotted a few shallow sluffs on very steep slopes facing the north half of the compass. Otherwise no earth-shattering avalanche activity to report.
Ted was in Whitney Basin yesterday and noted... "No red flags where I traveled, but I would imagine with the warm weather, some lower elevation sunny slopes are getting soft and unsupportable".
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