Rain and New Snow on Incline Lake Peak

Rain in this area overnight with a thin rain crust observed up to 9200'.  Less than 1cm of new snow overnight at 9700' which was mostly made up of graupel.  A break in precipitation mid morning until snow began at 11am.  Light snow fell throughout the mid day at S1.  The old snow surface was made up of wet snow below 8600' with crusts and soft snow at the higher elevations.  Small loose wet instabilities were seen on steep terrain from the overnight rain, all were small in size.  Wet heavy snow with small accumulations limited the amount of blowing snow in the early afternoon.  This is expected to change as the snow level drops and storm intensity increases.