In partnership with: Utah Division of State
Parks and Recreation, The Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center, Utah Department
of Emergency Services and Homeland Security and
AVALANCHE BULLETIN
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Good evening,
this is Brett Kobernik with the
The annual report for 2004-05 is now on the web. (click HERE,
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Current Conditions:
A closed low pressure system will move across southern
Avalanche Discussion:
The warm
temperatures over the last week settled the snowpack quite a bit. Below about 9,500 feet the surface is fairly
supportable before things start to soften with daytime heating. Once you get up around 10,000’ feet you can
find some weaker, recrystalized snow on the surface and within the shallow snowpack. However, this snow has gained some strength over
the week and poses no threat of avalanching at the current time. We will continue to monitor the snowpack as
with the right weather conditions the surface could become weak before the next
storm producing a sugary layer that new snow could fail on.
Mountain Weather:
After the closed low moves through on Friday, the flow will shift to the northwest
for the weekend.
With mundane avalanche
conditions and no significant weather to talk about, we probably won’t update
this advisory until conditions change which could be a good number of days.
You can also
check out the National Weather Service web site for other weather forecasting
products (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/).
Click
HERE for a season history chart by month.
To
have this advisory automatically e-mailed to you each day, click HERE. (You must re-sign up this season even if you
were on the list last season.)
The
Friends of the Utah Avalanche Center Home page is: http://www.utahavalanchecenter.com
We are looking for feed back on our MOCK-UP of our new
advisory format. Let us know what you
think! http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/newadvisory
Thanks for calling.