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A fresh coating of new snow will refresh the scenery and improve riding conditions in the backcountry. Last night, winds from the northwest picked up steam for several hours, drifting the fresh snow at upper and mid elevations onto lee slopes and into avalanche starting zones. Today, people could trigger small wind slab avalanches of drifted storm snow or long-running sluffs. Even small avalanches can be dangerous because they could carry you into trees or other terrain traps below steep slopes. Today, we'll find the best shallow powder and dust-on-crust conditions at upper elevations on lower-angled slopes and in sheltered terrain. Before yesterday's storm, the snow up high in northerly terrain was still soft, while it was more variable lower down, with inconsistent breakable crusts and more solid melt-freeze crusts on select sunny slopes.
The Tony Grove Lake Snotel at 8400' recorded 4 inches of new snow overnight and 6 inches in the last 24 hours, containing .8" SWE (snow water equivalent). There is 113" of total snow with 128% of normal SWE for the date. Temperatures cooled a bit overnight, and it's 22° F this morning. At our new Card Canyon weather station (8750'), the temperature is 18 °F, with around 3" of new snow and a total snow depth of 86 inches. Meanwhile, at the CSI Logan Peak weather station (9700'), it's 16°F, with winds blowing from the north-northwest at 20 mph with gusts up to 41 mph overnight. On Paris Peak (at 9500'), it's 15°F, with winds blowing from the northwest at 11 mph and overnight gusts up to 26 mph.
Today, we can expect mostly cloudy skies with 8500' high temperatures around 23° F and winds from the north-northwest blowing around 15 mph.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high temperature around 30° F. The big news is an easterly wind event. East winds are expected to increase significantly tomorrow, blowing 26 to 31 mph with gusts around 45 mph in the afternoon.
East winds will continue tomorrow night and diminish a bit on Friday, with sunny skies and a high temperature at 8500' around 32° F. Expect fair weather with warming daytime temperatures and plenty of sun through the weekend.
