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Temperatures dropped overnight, and it's a cool 20°F this morning at the 8400' Tony Grove Snotel. Looks like about an inch of new snow fell overnight, and 5" in the last 24 hours. There is 67 inches of total snow with 79% of normal SWE. The Franklin Basin Snotel, just north of the state line, reports 8" with .6" SWE. It's 11°F and west-northwest winds are blowing around 20 mph at the 9700' CSI Logan Peak weather station. We expect mostly cloudy skies today, with a good chance of snow showers this afternoon, but little accumulation expected. High temperatures at 9000' will be around 24°F, and moderate north-northwest winds will create wind chill values as low as -3°F. Snow showers are likely tomorrow, with 2 to 4 inches of accumulation possible at upper elevations. Unsettled conditions will continue through the work week, with the next chance for heavy snow in the Logan Zone coming on Thursday.
Avalanches of storm snow are possible for people to trigger today on steep upper and mid elevation slopes. If the sun peeks out, it'll quickly moisten the fresh snow and small loose wet avalanches will become likely in steep terrain.
Observers report active storm snow avalanche conditions in the Central Bear River Range yesterday. One party reports triggering fast moving loose avalanches or sluffs that entrained significant piles and ran well down into avalanche runouts.