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AVALANCHE ADVISORY
Wednesday,
January 11, 2006 7:30am
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Current Conditions:
Ridge top winds have been blowing hard all night from the
west-southwest around 20-30 and gusting to 40 and 50. It’s also warm with ridge top temperatures
25-30 degrees. Our next storm has just
arrived and snow started falling early this morning with 3 inches in the
Avalanche Conditions:
Yesterday, a skier triggered and was caught in a soft, wind slab on a
steep, northeast-facing slope on
Bottom Line:
The avalanche danger is MODERATE this morning
on steep slopes with recent deposits of wind drifted snow and I expect the
avalanche danger to rise to CONSIDERABLE
by tonight and on Thursday with the addition of about a foot of new snow with
strong winds
Mountain Weather:
The first piece of the storm is arriving this morning with strong winds
from the southwest and perhaps three inches of snow. Then, we may get a break in the middle of the
day before the main cold front arrives later this afternoon and tonight. We should have heavy snow and strong winds
overnight—40 gusting to 60—as the cold front passes. Ridge top winds should die
down to round 20 mph on Thursday morning.
Snow should end by about mid morning on Thursday. New snow should add up to around a foot in
most parts of the
For the extended forecast, we have another storm for about Sunday and
Monday, which looks like most of the energy going south with less strong ridge top
winds.
Other mountain weather information can be found here.
Regional
Snow Profile (this profile can also be
found daily off our home page under avalanche products)
Click here for Seasonal Weather History Charts.
Announcements and
Miscellaneous:
3rd Annual Backcountry Awareness Week Monday Jan 30-Sunday
February 5
Fundraising Dinner February
3rd at 6pm with speakers Conrad Anker and Apa Sherpa. For more info, go to www.backcountryawareness.com or
call Snowbird at 933-2147.
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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.)
UDOT also has a highway avalanche control work hotline
for Little Cottonwood road, which is updated as needed. 801-975-4838.
The
Wasatch Powderbird Guides were in
Please
report any backcountry snow and avalanche conditions. Call (801) 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140, email [email protected] or fax 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.
Evelyn Lees will
update this advisory by 7:30 Thursday morning.
Thanks for calling.