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It was snowing and blowing yesterday, and an additional 3-6 inches of snow fell with a good increase in winds from the south. Southerly winds yesterday were blowing 25-40 mph gusting to 50 mph and moving a lot of snow. Over the last 6 days, 30+ inches of snow (4 inches of water) has been recorded at the
Trial Lake SNOTEL.
This morning temperatures dropped into the teens F ranging from 13-18 degrees. Fortunately, winds decreased dramatically just after midnight and are barely blowing from the west this morning.
Today clouds will linger over the Uintas and the sun will poke through at times. Light snow will fall occasionally but not accumulate. Temperatures should climb into the upper 20s F, but it could feel quite warm if the sun appears for any length of time. Light winds will shift to the north this morning, and then increase to about 20 mph late this afternoon.
The rest of the week will be sunny and warm. Another storm should arrive next weekend, but at the moment it doesn't look like a ton of snow. We'll keep watching how it unfolds and keep our fingers crossed.
On upper elevation north facing slopes out of the wind, it's over the head and over the hood powder! Moments of sunshine and warm temperatures over the last five days have created several ice crusts. These are thicker and harder on southerly facing slopes and at low elevation slopes.
Photo from the northern part of the Uintas from Saturday (A. Gile)
Yesterday in upper Weber Canyon, Craig spotted several soft slabs of wind drifted snow that happened naturally during an uptick in wind and snowfall. They were similar to one triggered by a rider
on Friday near Hoyt Peak.
Winds have also created some huge cornices that were very sensitive yesterday. Uinta-ace, Mike J.
found large cornices yesterday and was able to easily trigger them. He also saw that the adjacent slope had avalanched on its own.
For all Uinta observations and archived avalanche activity click
HERE. 
