In partnership with: The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center, Utah Department of Public
Safety Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management, Salt Lake County, and
Utah State Parks
Good morning, this is Bruce Tremper with the
Current Conditions:
Wow, what a great start to the season. Just a couple more inches of snow fell
overnight in Little Cottonwood Canyon to add to the foot of 10 percent water
snow they got yesterday. Five more
inches fell overnight at Solitude. The
westerly flow overnight favored Snowbasin and they got 8 more inches overnight
and the 1000 Peaks area in the
Avalanche Conditions:
At least at upper elevations in Little Cottonwood Canyon, the new snow was denser than the snow just underneath and a couple of our observers reported fairly widespread soft slab avalanches on anything over 35 degrees in steepness, but these slides were fairly soft and not breaking particularly wide. I’m guessing that most of the instability will have settled out by today unless we get an increase in wind. One report from mid elevation in the Solitude area yesterday did not indicate any problems with avalanches, just the pesky problem of the powder blowing up over your head as you skied. We don’t have much information coming in this time of year, so we won’t issue any danger ratings, but we will just pass along what little information we have. We just got back in our office for the first time yesterday, so we’re still trying to get everything up and working. We hope to have our full program running by the end of the week. Finally, remember that the ski resorts are not open yet and they are not doing any avalanche control, so you have to treat them just like the backcountry. Wear beacons and shovels, cross avalanche terrain one at a time and don’t jump into a run when there is someone below you.
Mountain Weather:
One
disturbance will move through this morning and another will arrive later today
into this evening. This will bring occasional snow showers to the region with
an additional several inches of snow. A break in the precipitation is expected
later Wednesday into Thursday.
Temperatures will remain in the mid 20’s with ridgetop winds will remain
from the west today and turn northwesterly by tonight and blow around 10-15
mph.
General Information:
Don’t miss
the annual ski swap at REI this weekend but on by the Friends of the
Digital Forecast for point:
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Nov |
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Wed |
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Nov |
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Thu |
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Daily-Temp |
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Low |
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12 |
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High |
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21 |
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Low |
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8 |
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High |
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20 |
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Low |
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5 |
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High |
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26 |
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Snow Showers |
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Chance Snow Showers |
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Chance of Precip |
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88% |
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80% |
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80% |
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50% |
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20% |
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10% |
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9% |
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Precip |
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0.17" |
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0.06" |
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0.09" |
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0.08" |
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12-hr Snow Total |
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2" |
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3" |
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1" |
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Cloudiness |
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95% |
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80% |
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80% |
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80% |
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80% |
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80% |
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80% |
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59% |
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59% |
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85% |
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Temp |
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19 |
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Dewpoint |
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12 |
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12 |
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18 |
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14 |
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Relative Humdity |
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95% |
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91% |
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87% |
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91% |
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95% |
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80% |
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80% |
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87% |
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87% |
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58% |
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57% |
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67% |
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Wind |
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NE |
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If you are getting
into the backcountry, please give us a call and let us know what you’re seeing,
especially if you trigger an avalanche.
You can leave a message at 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140. Or you can e-mail an observation to
uac@avalanche .org, 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.
We will update this
advisory sometime on Wednesday morning.
Thanks
for calling!
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For more detailed weather information go to
our Mountain Weather Advisory
National
Weather Service - Salt Lake City - Snow.
For an explanation of avalanche danger
ratings:
http://www.avalanche.org/usdanger.htm