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Good morning, this is Bruce
Tremper with the
Current Conditions:
This past weekend, a lot of
people got out and enjoyed the mountains.
Many of the popular slopes in the
Avalanche Conditions:
It’s been a week since we’ve
had any significant loading of new or wind blown snow and the snowpack is
feeling kind of like a limp rubber band. Snow is a lot like people, in that it doesn’t
like rapid changes and with not much going on with the weather this past week,
the snowpack has gotten lazy as well--kind of like a sleeping cat draped over
the back of the couch. It has been
several days since we’ve had any avalanches and the instability has slowly
crept back to mostly low danger with a few places I might still call moderate
danger—meaning that there are only localized places where you might be able to
trigger an avalanche. Today, the largest
danger will probably be the fresh wind drifts, which you will find mostly along
the upper elevation ridges. They look
smooth and rounded and could range from being soft to hard and they often sound
hollow like a drum.
Bottom Line (SLC and
The avalanche danger is MODERATE today on any
slope of 35 degrees or steeper that have recent deposits of wind blown snow and
there may also be some pockets of lingering instability above about 9,000 feet
on northeast, north and northwest facing slopes, 35 degrees and steeper. On other slopes the avalanche danger is
generally LOW.
Logan and Ogden area mountains:
Mostly LOW danger except MODERATE danger on steep
slopes with recent wind drifts.
Mountain Weather:
It’s getting more and more
depressing to look at the weather forecasts.
I hope the computer models are wrong because they don’t show any
significant snow in the forecast until at least December and even then, it’s
not much. The nicest thing about the
recent weather is the big, fat beautiful full moon in the sky this morning and
tonight along with warm temperatures. Today 8,000’ temperatures should be near
freezing and overnight lows down around 15 degrees with partly cloudy skies. Ridgetop
temperatures should be warm up to around 25 degrees with ridgetop
winds from the southwest around 10-15 mph.
Looks like a wimpy brush-by to the north of us on Tuesday night which
will probably give us a few clouds but not much else. After that, it looks like at least a week to
get caught up on computer work.
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conditions and local variations always occur.
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Thanks for calling!
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National
Weather Service - Salt Lake City - Snow.
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