Variable Wet Snow on Relay Peak

Location Name: 
Relay Peak
Region: 
Mount Rose Area
Date and time of observation: 
Mon, 03/16/2015 - 12:30
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United States
39° 18' 50.688" N, 119° 56' 6.54" W
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Observation made by: Forecaster
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Variable wet snow conditions existed in the Relay Peak area today. On some E-SE aspects corn conditions existed with a few inches of wet melt-freeze snow resting on top of a supportable melt-freeze crust with wet snow below it. On other E-SE aspects 10 to 18 inches of unsupportable wet snow existed. N-NE aspects held 10 to 20 inches of wet sticky snow that has not transitioned to corn with old well bonded snow below it. Human triggered pinwheels up to 18-20 inches in diameter occurred on N-NE facing test slopes up to 9800 ft. One small skier triggered collapse about 3-4 ft. in diameter occurred on a low angle S facing slope at 9100 ft.

Photo 1: "Sink hole" where snow above a small creek had collapsed and melted out at about 9200 ft.

Photo 2: 18 inch pinwheel on a NE aspect at 9400 ft.

Photo 3: The Relay Rd. @ 9300 ft on a W aspect.

 

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Weather Observations
Blowing Snow: 
Cloud Cover: 
100% of the sky covered by clouds
Air temperature: 
Above Freezing
Wind Speed: 
Light
Precipitation: 
Air temperature trend: 
Warming
Wind Direction: 
Southwest
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