You'll find nice shallow powder conditions in the backcountry, especially in smooth terrain. Several inches of new snow fell across the zone yesterday and overnight, with significantly deeper accumulations at upper elevations. Overnight moderate winds blowing mostly from the west drifted fresh snow into avalanche starting zones, creating wind slabs that might be pretty easy for people to trigger this morning. Stability should increase fairly rapidly.
The 8400' Tony Grove Snotel reports 8 inches of new snow with 1.2" SWE in the last 24 hours. It's 13° F and there is 128" of total snow. It's 6° F and the wind is blowing around 20 mph from the west-northwest this morning at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station.
Here is the NWS point forecast (36 hrs) for Upper Elevations in the Central Bear River Range:
Today: A 20 percent chance of snow showers after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 25. Wind chill values as low as -8. West wind 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: A 30 percent chance of snow showers, mainly after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 12. Wind chill values as low as -2. West wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 8 to 13 mph after midnight. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.
Thursday: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 29. Wind chill values as low as 6. West wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 16 to 21 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
Clouds, snow showers, and cooler temperatures will continue through the week, with a few inches of accumulation possible both Thursday and Friday. This weekend's forecast calls for clouds and showers persisting but daytime temperatures rising.
It is a pleasure to report no new avalanches in the past several days.... For a list of recent avalanches in the Logan Zone go
HERE.
Find a list of all recent observations & avalanches from across Utah go
HERE.
