Skies are trending clear after the "storm".
Storm totals are....a trace of new. Winds are light to moderate from the northwest; mountain temperatures have dropped into the upper teens.
Should be a stunner of a day today - mostly sunny, light to moderate winds from the northwest, temperatures rising to the low-to-mid-20s. The Outlook: a ridge of high pressure builds yet again for the foreseeable future, although we might see a lost and wayward flurry or two on Monday as a weak storm races by to the north.
Even though it hasn't really snowed in weeks, we've been able to find decent, if slow, skiing and riding in the protected northerly aspects in the recrystallized, AKA "square" powder. Owing to clear skies and a strong temperature gradient near the surface of the snowpack, the snow has metamorphosed into small, loose, angular faceted grains. Special thanks to Doug Wewer (snowflake photographer) and Jed Workman, from the Square Powder lab.
None reported from yesterday; however riders have recently triggered longer running "square powder" sluffs in steep polar terrain...and ski patrol avalanche teams triggered shallow drifts of wind blown snow earlier in the week, though these have largely stabilized.
