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Advisory: Logan Area Mountains | Issued by Toby Weed for Thursday - March 10, 2016 - 7:14am |
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current conditions The Tony Grove Snotel at 8400' reports 30 degrees this morning and 9 inches of new snow yesterday morning containing an inch of water. There's 76 inches of total snow containing 97% of average water for the date. It's 25 degrees at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station with southwest winds currently averaging 23 mph. Yesterday's surprise powder stayed pretty good up high with cool temperatures and clouds, but solar heating certainly affected lower elevation slopes and the snow became moist and sticky pretty quickly in the afternoon.
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recent activity
This natural avalanche from over the weekend in the Wood Camp Area looks to have been initiated by either a cornice fall or a shallow wind slab, but it involved wet snow in descent. (3-8-16) ***To view our updated list of backcountry observations and avalanche activity from around Utah, go to our observations page
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description
Heightened cornice fall and wind slab avalanche conditions exist today in drifted upper elevation terrain.
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LIKELY
UNLIKELY
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LARGE
SMALL
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INCREASING DANGER
SAME
DECREASING DANGER
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description
Powerful March sun and rapid warming today will quickly warm the new snow in sunny terrain, and the fresh snow will become moist and sticky and prone to avalanching. Avalanches starting as small point releases will entrain all the fresh snow in descent and could become quite sizable on long slopes with a sustained pitch. Natural loose wet avalanches are possible (and perhaps likely) on sunny slopes at all elevations during the heat of the day, and wet avalanches may become possible on shady low and mid elevation slopes as air temperatures skyrocket in the mountains.
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weather A warm southwest flow is developing over the region today and will increase through tomorrow. A weak system will cross over the zone on Saturday. A series of storms will begin to impact the region on Sunday and continue well into next week. Expect partly sunny weather today with southwest winds averaging in the mid teens along the ridges and a high temperature at 9000' around 48 degrees! It'll be partly cloudy tonight with a low around 34 degrees and a bit stronger southwest winds. It'll be partly cloudy again tomorrow with south southwest winds averaging in the mid twenties and mountain temperatures pushing 50 degrees again.
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general announcements Please submit snow and avalanche observations from your ventures in the backcountry HERE. You can call us at 801-524-5304 or email HERE, or include #utavy in your Instagram or Tweet us @UAClogan. To report avalanche activity in the Logan Area or to contact the local avalanche forecaster call me, Toby, at 435-757-7578. We'll update this advisory throughout the season on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday mornings by about 7:30 This advisory is produced by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. It describes only general avalanche conditions and local variations always exist.
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