Quickly Melting Refreeze on Incline Lake Peak

Location Name: 
Incline Lake Peak
Region: 
Mount Rose Area
Date and time of observation: 
Sat, 04/12/2014 - 12:00
Location Map: 
United States
39° 17' 39.6744" N, 119° 56' 25.9224" W
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Observation made by: Forecaster
Snowpit Observations
More detailed information about the snowpack: 

3-6 cm of soft wet corn snow existed on top of a barely supportable melt-freeze crust on the E-SE aspects of Incline Lake peak at 11 am. today. Supportable crusts left over from the overnight refreeze still existed on the N-NE aspects on Incline Lake Peak as of 11:30 am. 30 minutes later the overnight refreeze had melted away completely in most places leaving 30-40 cm of soft, unsupportable wet snow behind on any aspects with snowcover up to 9600 ft. Obstacles are quickly melting out on the southerly slopes.

Photo 1: Boot penetration on a sunny NE slope at 9400 ft.

Photo 2: Quickly diminishing snow cover on the SE-S-SW aspects of Incline Lake peak

Photo 3: Rocks and other obstacles melting out on an E aspect at about 8800 ft.

Snowpack photos: 
Weather Observations
Blowing Snow: 
Cloud Cover: 
25% of the sky covered by clouds
Air temperature: 
Above Freezing
Wind Speed: 
Calm
Precipitation: 
Air temperature trend: 
Warming
Wind Direction: 
Accumulation rate: 
More detailed information about the weather: 

Some thin high cloud cover present to the north and south, and some convective cumulus clouds were building to the south and east of Job and Freel.