The Utah Avalanche Center is expecting dangerous avalanche conditions in the mountains of Northern and Central Utah with this week’s storm for two reasons:
1. Having such little snow this season has created a very shallow and very weak snowpack which will not be able to support forecasted amounts of new snow and WILL produce avalanches.
2. The human element will compound this problem. Many people are excited and have been eagerly awaiting fresh snow. Don’t let powder fever overtake good judgment, especially with dangerous avalanche conditions.
The expected snowfall will make excellent riding conditions by later this week because the initial snowfall will be heavy and dense followed by colder, lighter snow. This is a right side up storm that will make both uphill and downhill travel easy and fun. These great riding conditions will make it easy to forget about buried weak layers in the snowpack that will create dangerous avalanche conditions.
We anticipate issuing an AVALANCHE WATCH on Tuesday and an AVALANCHE WARNING on Wednesday. For up to date avalanche information across the state, visit www.utahavalanchecenter.org.
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