April 11, 2014

                                                                                                                               Photo: Jay Audenart

Hi Wayne, these photos taken morning of April 9th. Very dramatic crown line taking out entire NW face of Matier (crown also visible bottom right). Step down to early winter pwl due to wind event? Debris pile was close to a kilometer from face onto glacier.
I think the Joffre photo shows signs of point release to wet slide.

                                                                                                      Photo: Jay Audenart

    Mount Baker has lots of snow!!

    Looking up Howe Sound, April 10, 2014.

    A picture of a picture.







Weather observations for April 11, 2014; taken at 06:00 Hrs.

2240 meters      -5, Winds were 10-20 KPH from the SSW
2180 meters      -4, Winds were 35-45 KPH from the SSW
1860 meters      -4, Winds were 10-20 KPH from the S
1835 meters      -3, Winds were15-30 KPH from the SSW
1650 meters      -1, Trace of new snow, Base 248 cm
1550 meters       0, Trace of new snow, Base 196 cm
  660 meters     +4, Valley Temperature, Max Temp Yest +10.5


For the forecast, cloudy skies for today (Mid layer and High layer) with a slight chance of some precipitation as a weak dry upper level trough passes through our zone. Upper level ridging will begin to build this evening influenced by a Northwest flow. Mostly sunny skies for Saturday with some cloudy periods tomorrow afternoon. The  ridge will also bring increasingly warmer temperatures into Sunday and Monday with sunny skies. The ridge will be pushed East with a strong on shore flow Monday afternoon. The models are not in agreement past Monday evening, appears to be a trough moving in from the North on Tuesday. More on next week tomorrow. Enjoy the spring weather over the weekend. Freezing levels Sunday and Monday will fluctuate from a low of 2000 meters to a high of 2900 meters on Monday.

                       As of 07:00 hours in the alpine we have overcast skies with variable visibility.

    Satellite image from late Thursday afternoon with corresponding image below.

    The big picture!

        Low to the North, Low to the South, only time will tell what occurs for Tuesday!


Video Fridays:

Watch Emma Dahlstrom stomp a : Backflip

Whistler in March: Peak Chair Madness

Snow Talks: April 12-14, 2014: Last episode for the season

Jon Olsson drives Supercar up a ski slope: Norway

Kelly McGarry flips 72 foot long canyon gap: Red Bull Rampage 2013

Nine Knights Invite 2014: 100 Foot Jump




Articles:

Massive rockfall closes a Yosemite trail: Wapama Falls

Can you say rapid change: CAC Forecasters Blog

Conditions Outlook: April 11-18, 2014.: CAC Forecasters Blog

Officials call off search for Minnesota Father and Son: Difficult decision in Colorado

  

    Cool sculpture at Port Albernie.

                 An amazing door!

    Would be interesting to see this river in full flood!!