Front Range
SnowpackBrian Lazar · Feb 4, 2014 · Front Range
Weather
overcast skies but thin cloud cover (could see the sun behind the clouds), cold, and relatively calm. Light snow all day
Snowpack
Highly variable and wind-affected. Although it's been pretty calm recently, winds on Mon did move snow around and form thin hard wind slabs. HS varies from 110cm to 300 cm. Hard (P to P+)slabs over buried PWLs. HS changes very dramatically by aspect near and above treeline. Deep hard slabs are getting quite continuous across the terrain and now are up to 100 to 200 m wide in exposed areas. The recent storm snow is still there and soft (F) and is 30-40cm thick, but is now capped with thin windboard in all but the most sheltered areas near and above treeline BTL the storm snow if still soft. All this HST sit on top of preserved surface hoar and NSFs. Not a big problem yet until the recent storm snow settles and stiffens a bit. This could take a little time in areas with the windboard capping the storm snow.