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Skies are clearing this morning in the wake of the overnight cold front.
After yesterday's heat wave, mountain temperatures have mercifully dropped into the low 20s.
In the central Wasatch, there were gusts over 100mph overnight along the highest elevations. Current hourly averages of weather stations in Provo are 20-25mph with gusts to 40.
For today, we'll see clearing skies, moderate to strong northwest winds, and mountain temps in the 20s.
A warming trend puts mountain temps tomorrow yet again beyond freezing with continued winds perhaps through overnight Friday into Saturday.
A weak system moves through Friday night ahead of some glimmer of promise for next week.
We didn't hear of any avalanche activity in Provo, but suspect wet avalanche activity was also noted at the mid and low elevations.
In the central Wasatch, warming temperatures provoked some wet loose sluffing in shady terrain at and below 9000'. An
ice climbing party near the bottom of Hogum Fork in LCC experienced a harrowing experience of being engulfed in wet loose debris cascading down from above.
The climbers decided to bail and "down climbing, before I made it back to my anchor, a larger point release came down from above the gully directly over last steep icicle. I was only barely able to keep my stance on the ice without being swept up. I was totally submerged under flowing snow as the avalanche ran past..."
Fortunately, the cold snap will have locked things up overnight and wet activity should cease.