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Forecast for the Salt Lake Area Mountains

Trent Meisenheimer
Issued by Trent Meisenheimer on
Saturday morning, January 29, 2022
A LOW avalanche danger exists as we generally have safe avalanche conditions. Watch for unstable snow on isolated terrain features. Natural and human-triggered avalanches are unlikely.
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Weather and Snow
Under clear skies, the mountain temperatures range from 8°F in the canyon bottoms to 33°F at 11,000'. This shows a significant temperature inversion and a rapid warm-up from yesterday morning, with temperatures being 13 degrees warmer at the upper elevations. Winds are currently from the westerly direction at 5-10 mph speeds across the upper elevations.
Expect plenty of sunshine today with light winds, and mountain temperatures rising into the low 30's and 40's °F.
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Recent Avalanches
None. You can find all observations HERE.
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Normal Caution: It is used by forecasters when the avalanche conditions are generally safe, and there is no predominate avalanche problem. Any avalanche type is possible, but the most common would be windslab, loose wet, and dry loose avalanches, and they are expected to be small.
In isolated areas you may find:
- Pockets of fresh wind drifted snow at the mid and upper elevations. Although drifts will be shallow (up to 6") and not very wide, wind drifts may be sensitive if they have formed on top of weaker snow underneath.
- Sluffing of dry snow on steep northerly aspects. Although these sluffs won't entrain much snow, getting caught in one could be serious in consequential terrain.
- Wet loose sluffs on the sunny aspects. Watch for rollerballs and pinwheels as precursors to any wet loose sluffing with direct sun and daytime heating.
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This information does not apply to developed ski areas or highways where avalanche control is normally done. This forecast is from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This forecast describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
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