The primary avalanche hazard today is wet avalanche activity related to warming. The snowpack has now had over a day to adjust to warming, and clouds and winds may further limit wet activity today. But if the snow surface warms up where you are, natural and human-triggered avalanches are possible involving wet loose snow sluffs or larger wet slab avalanches. This hazard exists in steeper terrain, especially on aspects facing west, south, and east, as well as on all aspects at the mid and lower elevations. Even upper elevation northerly terrain may become active. These slides will run on crusts underneath Wednesday's storm snow, or possibly gouge down more deeply into the snowpack, potentially entraining large amounts of dense, heavy, wet snow.

Fortunately the snowpack gives us plenty of clues when the avalanche problem involves wet snow. Evidence includes wet rollerballs (as shown below) or larger wet loose avalanches. As soon as the crusts soften and becomes soggy and unsupportable, it’s a sign of unstable wet snow, and time to move off of and out from underneath steeper slopes. Avoid terrain traps such as the gully bottoms.