As the depth and load from the new snow increases, the Poor Snowpack Structure that is Widespread will come more into play. During the morning hours it appeared that the New Snow did not have enough weight to overload the fragile pre-existing snowpack in sheltered terrain. Yet as stated above, in any areas where the Winds had minimally aided in increasing the new load, the PWL's were very sensitive. When the 7 inches of new snow changed to 14 inches of soft slab from cross and upslope loading the weak layers were reactive. Of Note, it was also easy to initiate Cracking on 30 to 33 degree slopes; and Hasty Pits and Hand Shears easily initiated clean shears at the interface of the New Snow and the pre-storm NSF's. Also of concern are the variety of PWL's that can be found out there. Crust Facet Sandwiches on SSE, ESE, SSW and WSW are just a few of the areas that are housing unusually weak snow; and of course E, N and W aspects have typical weak structure for this time of the year.
It appeared that the Danger today was Moderate and with any continued precip and or winds the Danger for Sunday may rise to Considerable experiencing any kind of increasing loads. With this in mind, at some point, Remote Triggering from a distance may be a real concern.
