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Temperatures climbed close to freezing overnight at upper elevations, and I'm reading 28°F at 9700' near the summit of Logan Peak. Colder temperatures in the last few nights put a hold on the meltdown and formed a pretty solid and thick melt-freeze crust on top of the saturated snow. In this refrozen state, wet snow is stable and avalanches are generally unlikely. With some cloud cover today greenhousing is possible, and seasonal daytime warmth will probably soften up the surface crust. If you start sinking into wet snow or observe signs of wet snow instability, it's time to reevaluate your route so that you avoid steep terrain.
The 8400' Tony Grove Snotel is not updating this morning, but yesterday afternoon there was 57 inches of total snow at the site, containing 73% of normal SWE. South-southwest winds are blowing around 25 mph at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station, where overnight temperatures were a bit below freezing and are rising this morning, and it's already 29°F.
- Expect partly sunny skies today, with high temperatures at 8500' around 45°F and 15 to 25 mph southwest winds, with gusts around 40 mph.
- It will be partly cloudy and a bit blustery tonight ,with low temperatures around 19°F and 17 to 23 mph winds blowing from the northwest.
- Tomorrow will be sunny, with high temperatures around 45°F. North winds will blow 10 to 15 mph and veer from the south in the afternoon.
- Unsettled weather is expected for the early part of next week, with snow showers, clouds, and cool mountain temperatures. Fair and mostly sunny weather is likely towards the end of the week.
Conditions are quite a bit different this weekend than last, with much colder temperatures and much more stable snow in the backcountry. Last weekend's exceptionally warm weather caused a fairly widespread natural wet avalanche cycle in the Logan Zone, with large wet slab and wet loose avalanches observed, especially widespread in the Wellsville Range.
A large natural wet slab avalanche from last Saturday (3-26-22), likely triggered by a wet loose avalanche overrunning the slope, in Bird Canyon off Mendon Peak in the Wellsville Mountain Wilderness.
Check out all the recent backcountry observations and many recent avalanche reports from across Utah
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