Carpenter Ridge Observations

Sunny and warm on Carpenter Ridge today.  In the most wind loaded locations, isolated, small wind slab development was observed.  In these locations, small wind slabs were 10 cm thick or less, mostly unreactive, and did not extend very far downslope.  In most cases downslope extent was around 2m with up to 10m down slope extent was observed in one location. A buried surface hoar layer existed in some locations under the recent wind slabs.  This surface hoar was smaller than seen at other locations in the forecast area and looked to be decomposing.  Near surface faceting continues to provide cold unconsolidated surface snow on shaded northerly terrain.