22 Apr 2017

April 22, 2017


    AVALANCHE ACTIVITY:

    Sz 1 Sc yesterday.


    Numerous wet point releases.

    Wet slide on a moraine with a glide crack.

    Fairly large debris.


    YESTERDAY:

    Early Friday morning April 21, 2017.

    Green Lake should be ice free any day now!!

    Looking up towards the Meager Group.

    Some large cornice development.

    Snow in the upper elevations was dry.

    Big Air.

    Friday, Blue Bird afternoon.

    Dry Smoke.


Weather Observations for April 22, 2017 taken at 06:00 Hours.

2240 meters      -3, Winds were 10-15  KPH S     --Horstman Hut 
2180 meters      -1, Winds were  20-25 KPH ESE--Whistler Peak
1860 meters      -3, Winds were  10-15 KPH S     --Rendevous
1835 meters     +1, Winds were    5-10 KPH E     --Roundhouse
1650 meters     +1, 0 cm of new snow, 0 cm in 24 hrs, 351 cm Base, RH 83%  --Pig Alley
1550 meters     +1, 0 cm of new snow, 0 cm in 24 hrs, 262 cm Base, RH 76%  --Catskinner 
  660 meters     +3, Valley Temp, Max Temp Yesterday was +16.9, 0.0 mm of Precip recorded yest

    As of 07:00 Hrs we have broken cloud and unlimited visibility.

FORECAST:

An upper level low will send clouds our way with a frontal band approaching the coast this afternoon in a Southerly flow aloft. We can expect light rain showers this afternoon with the FL rising to 2200 meters. A cold front will pass through into tonight and the FL should drop to around 1200 meters. A weaker frontal band arrives for Sunday with light showers and the FL hovering in the 1700 meter range. Monday is looking unsettled before an upper level trough sends a series of fronts through the area next week.
Guesstimates: 10-15 cm by Sunday morning above 1600 meters, 2-6 cm by Monday morning above 1600 meters, 0 cm for Tuesday morning, 2-4 cm for Wednesday morning above 1700 meters.


    GOES IR image from this am.

                    Moisture on its way this afternoon.

    Frontal band arriving today.

   Low will send some frontal bands our way later in the day.

                    More moisture for Sunday.

                    Unsettled on Monday.

   OBSERVATIONS & INFORMATION:

   Mount Sampson.

   Sculptured cornices.

    Pinwheeling yesterday.

   Numerous Sz 1 avalanches.

   There were some dry loose avalanches yesterday as well as some wet loose!!


ARTICLES:

Two teens die in an avalanche in the Retezat Mountains: Romania

How I survived an Everest Avalanche: New York Times

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