Wasatc h
Cache National Forest
In partnership with: The Friends of the Utah
The Utah Avalanche Center Home page is: http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/
Avalanche advisory
Saturday,
April 12, 2003
Good Morning. This is Ethan Greene with the
Current Conditions:
Under mostly cloudy skies
temperatures dipped into the upper 30’s at 8,000’ and mid 30’s at 10,000’ (mid
40’s at 8,000’ in the
Yesterday the crusts softened
by mid morning and corn hunting required careful aspect management. Although morning low temperatures are quite
similar today, with cloudy skies the refreeze will be quite shallow this
morning. Surface crusts will be
breakable in mid elevation areas. But believe
it or not there is still some soft snow on due north aspects above about 10,000’.
Avalanche Conditions:
Over the past four days the backcountry
avalanche activity has been limited to wet point-release avalanches running in
the surface snow. The only exception was
a slab avalanche that broke off of a steep rock slab in Broads Fork on Tuesday.
Overnight temperatures have
been above freezing for the past three nights.
Radiative cooling has helped the snow refreeze
each night, but last night high clouds inhibited cooling at the snow surface. Today the skies will become partly cloudy by
mid day and high temperatures will rise into the mid 50’s. It might be a good day to go for a climb, a bike
ride, or ca
Bottom Line (SLC,
Today
the avalanche danger is MODERATE
at all elevations and on all aspects.
With daytime heating the danger from natural avalanches will increase
and may reach CONSIDERABLE
on sun exposed slopes in the afternoon.
Mountain Weather:
Today southwest winds will
increase as a deep Pacific trough moves inland.
Temperatures will rise into the mid 50’s at 8,000’ and to near 40
degrees at 10,000’. Skies will be mostly
cloudy this morning and become partly cloudy this afternoon. Southwest winds will increase into the 30 mph range
during the day. Cloud cover and wind
speeds will increase on Sunday with rain and snow likely on Monday. Mountains snow showers will continue into
Tuesday. High pressure briefly builds in
on Wednesday and a second trough is forecast to move into
General Information:
Tomorrow will be the last morning advisory of the 2002-2003 season. We will issue
afternoon updates on the
To report backcountry snow
and avalanche conditions, especially if you observe or trigger an avalanche,
call (801) 524-5304 or 1-800-662-4140, or email to uac@avalanche.org or fax to
801-524-6301. The information in this
advisory is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its
content. This advisory describes general
avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
Bruce Tremper will update this advisory by
Thanks for calling!
________________________________________________________________________
National
Weather Service - Salt Lake City - Snow.
For an explanation of
avalanche danger ratings: