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Yesterday we had typical spring conditions--cold, hot, sunny, cloudy, snowy, windy, calm--you name it. In spring, if you don't like the weather just wait 10 minutes. As you can see from the graph here, we had wild swings in temperature, combined with greenhouse warming from moist, mountain-level clouds, which suddenly changed cold, dry snow into mashed potatoes within minutes. Today we may have more of the same with various mountaintop-level clouds this morning with thicker, higher clouds by noon. The snow surface is sun crusted and damp on the southerly facing slopes but there is still some dry, cold snow left on the upper elevation north facing slopes that still rides well. There's a total of about a foot or two of settled snow since last Sunday.

This is a 2-day graph with the present time on the right of each panel. Temperature on the left and snow water equivalent on the right.

The only, significant activity reported from the backcountry yesterday was some fresh wind slabs from wind yesterday morning in the upper elevations of White Pine and American Fork from ski cuts by WPG guides. These were breaking out about a foot deep and one was remotely triggered. In addition, some minor wet sluffs occurred on steep sun exposed slopes from the sudden daytime warming by the sun.

We will have variable clouds today with scattered, mountaintop-level clouds this morning with a thicker blanket of higher clouds moving in by mid morning or noon. The temperature should rise from the mid teens this morning to above freezing by afternoon. Wind should stay light from the southwest this morning increasing to moderate by afternoon.

We have a weak, splitting storm affecting us by Saturday, which looks to being a few more inches of snow--perhaps 4 inches. Then, we have another pulse of snow coming from the northwest on Sunday with higher wind from the northwest.

Remember your information can save lives. If you see anything we should know about, please participate in the creation of our own community avalanche advisory by submitting snow and avalanche conditions. You can also call us at 801-524-5304 or 800-662-4140, email by clicking HERE, or include #utavy in your tweet or Instagram.

If you trigger an avalanche in the backcountry - especially if you are adjacent to a ski area – please call the following teams to alert them to the slide and whether anyone is missing or not. Rescue teams can be exposed to significant hazard when responding to avalanches, and do not want to do so when unneeded. Thanks.

Salt Lake and Park City – Alta Central (801-742-2033), Canyons Resort Dispatch (435-615-3322)

Snowbasin Resort Dispatch (801-620-1017), Powder Mountain Dispatch (801-745-3772 x 123).

Sundance Dispatch (801-223-4150)

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DAWN PATROL Hotline updated daily by 5-530am - 888-999-4019 option 8.

Twitter Updates for your mobile phone - DETAILS

UDOT canyon closures:  LINK TO UDOT

Utah Avalanche Center mobile app - Get your advisory on your iPhone along with great navigation and rescue tools.uned.

Wasatch Powderbird Guides Blog/Itinerary for the Day.  

Lost or Found something in the backcountry? - http://nolofo.com/

Ski Utah mobile snow updates

Discount lift tickets are now available at Backcountry.com - Thanks to Ski Utah and the Utah Resorts.  All proceeds go towards paying for Utah Avalanche Center avalanche and mountain weather advisories.

To those skinning uphill at resorts:  it is your responsibility to know the resort policy on uphill travel.  Some allow uphill travel and have guidelines, some don't. Contact the Ski Patrol at each resort for details. IMPORTANT: Before skinning at a resort under new snow conditions, check in with Ski Patrol.  Resorts can restrict or cut off access if incompatible with control and grooming operations.

Benefit the Utah Avalanche Center when you shop from Backcountry.com or REI:  Click this link for Backcountry.com or this link to REI, shop, and they will donate a percent of your purchase price to the UAC.  Both offer free shipping (with some conditions) so this costs you nothing!

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This information does not apply to developed ski areas or highways where avalanche control is normally done.  This advisory is from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This advisory describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always exist.