Firebreak Obs
Quick reportSnowkyzr · Nov 17, 2024 · Sunshine
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, stormy, sunny, windy
- Riding Quality
- terrible
Went for a walk with the skis hoping more snow was going to fall but alas. It is still early season conditions with a shallow snowpack.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- 2
- Max Temp
- 2
- Min Temp
- -3
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Rainfall Rate
- drizzle
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Wind Direction
- S
- New Snow24 Hours
- 1
- Storm Start Date
- 2024-11-17
- Storm Snow Amount
- 0
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Morning: 2cm new snow at parking lot, S-1, rimed pp, Light SW winds gusting Moderate 10:20am: overcast, S-1 to S1 for 20min, S-1 to nil thereafter Noon: on and off flurries, graupel observed 2pm: broken clouds, nil snow, 1.5 degrees, Light S winds There was no rainfall.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 24
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NW
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1700
- Ski Penetration
- 10
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Foot Penetration
- 10
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- crust
Possibly not enough snow to work with for a reliable compression test... A hard melt-freeze crust is present 10cm down. About 7cm thick of a rain crust present from base.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Wind Exposure
- leeSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 1.5
- Trigger Sub Type
- accidental
- Start Zone Aspect
- NE
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- looseDry
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2024-11-17T21:00:00.000Z
Na size 1-1.5 observed on NE ALP slope on 2024-11-17 at 1400h off of Stanley Headwall