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Come, let's go
Snow-viewing
Til we're buried.
--- Matsuo BashÅ (1644-1694)
We are still living in a snow globe.
Overnight snow totals are 6-8" with storm totals of 16-22" and near 2.0" snow water equivalent on Ben Lomond.
Mountain temperatures are in the teens. Winds, mercifully, are generally light from the west. Along the highest ridgelines, they blew from the northwest for a few hours this morning with hourly wind speeds of 20-30mph with gusts to 40.
For today, we'll see light snowfall that may add up to another 1-3" of fairy dust. Temperatures will be in the teens and low 20s. Winds will remain light from the west.
We (the intermountain west) are buried beneath a long wave trough that will continue to keep at least light snowfall going off and on through Wednesday evening. We stay relatively cool with generally light to moderate wind. The next series of storms fire up on Friday. The image below - you can see we're nested in the cradle of storms.
Pro observer Joe Keeler provided a
great report from his outing near Ben Lomond yesterday. He intentionally dropped a cornice that triggered a fresh wind slab 18" deep and 150' wide. (photo) We did hear another report of a human triggered slide in Hells Canyon of the Snowbasin backcountry.
Ski area teams triggered numerous soft slab avalanches, the largest triggered far away from an explosive. It was 1-2' deep and 500' wide.
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