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Forecast for the Skyline Area Mountains

Brett Kobernik
Issued by Brett Kobernik on
Friday morning, December 23, 2016

The avalanche danger remains LOW in the majority of the terrain along the Manti-Skyline. There is an isolated chance that someone might trigger a small wind drift along the highest and steepest terrain. ANTICIPATE A RISING AVALANCHE DANGER ON SATURDAY DURING THE STORM.

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Weather and Snow

About 3 inches of new snow fell in the last 24 hours. It was pretty even in distribution from the bottom of the Sanpete Valley to the higher terrain. This is because there was very little wind to produce "orographic lift".

Temperatures are around 20 in the higher locations and wind speeds have bumped up slightly into a more normal speed from the west.

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Additional Information

We have a little clearing right now in the high country. More clouds will move in today as the next significant storm approaches. We'll start to see snow later today but the majority will fall on Saturday into Sunday. We may see a foot or more of accumulation. Temperatures start out warm during the storm and cool down into the single digits on Sunday. This should produce another "right side up" storm with higher density snow to begin and lower density snow as the storm progresses.

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