Weather: Yesterday was warm and sunny along with our constant companion - SW winds. They averaged 20 mph for most of the day with gusts as high as 35. They'll blow similarly today. A shortwave trough and associated cold front will move through the area this morning bringing some clouds and a chance for snow showers with no real accumulation expected. We should see mostly sunny skies later in the day with high temps in the mid 30's. Another weak wave should begin to produce clouds late Friday followed by a dry and mostly sunny weekend. For next week, we'll have our eye on another Pacific low sliding down the west coast.

Snowpack: A mixed bag of spring conditions are in effect. Isolated, unstable areas of wind drifted snow may still exist on upper elevation, northerly facing slopes. Deeper in the snowpack, a layer of weak, sugary, faceted snow exists. In isolated areas, a triggered wind drift could step down to this buried weak layer causing a deeper and more dangerous avalanche.

Kevin Dressel photo.