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Good morning, this is Evelyn
Lees with the
Current Conditions:
Under cloudy skies, overnight
temperatures in the mountains remained above freezing most of the night. In the last few hours they finally started to
cool at the higher elevations, and are just below freezing at 10,000’. At 7,000 to 8,000 feet, temperatures are
currently near 40. Winds are from the southwest,
and on the highest peaks are hitting 25 to 35 mph, with gusts to 45.
Today’s snow surface
conditions will be similar to yesterday’s - all you can eat mashed potatoes and
breakable crusts, with a few isolated areas where the crust is supportable and
very small portions of dense settled powder on steeper upper elevation
northerly facing slopes.
Avalanche Conditions:
After a second night of nonfreezing
temperatures combined with cloudy skies, many of the bonds in the snow pack are
in a liquid state this morning, rather than the preferred solid form. For today, the danger of both wet snow sluffs
and larger wet slab avalanches continues.
Yesterday, the biggest wet slides reported were from the
Harder to anticipate is the
possibility of deep slab releases. The
Bottom Line:
The avalanche danger is MODERATE on and below steep slopes of about 35 degrees and steeper. Human triggered wet snow sluffs and slabs are
possible. Natural avalanche are possible
in shallow snowpack areas, especially where underlain by rock slabs and in
steep rocky areas. Some avalanches could
break near the ground, and be very large and extremely dangerous.
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The
Mountain Weather:
Relief
from the heat is in sight. A
disorganized weather system will move into the
General Information:
Wasatch
Powderbird Guides may not be flying today.
For more information call 521-6040 ext. 5280.
To
report backcountry snow and avalanche conditions, especially if you observe or
trigger an avalanche, you can leave a message at (801) 524-5304 or
1-800-662-4140. Or you can e-mail an
observation to [email protected], or you can fax an observation to 801-524-6301.
The
information in this advisory is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely
responsible for its content. This
advisory describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always
occur.
I
will update this advisory by
Thanks for calling!
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more detailed weather information go to our Mountain Weather Advisory
National
Weather Service - Salt Lake City - Snow.
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