{"id":401,"date":"2019-01-12T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/?page_id=401"},"modified":"2019-01-12T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T18:38:05","slug":"season-snowpack-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/season-snowpack-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Snowpack Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>November &#8211; December 11, 2018<\/h3>\n<p class=\"c10\">Snow arrived to mountain locations in early October. While servicing a weather station at 9,200\u2019 near Galena Summit on October 25th, SAC forecasters observed ~4\u201d of compact melt-freeze layers and facets in shaded areas while sunnier slopes remained clear of snow. Since then, our snowpack has evolved through three notable snow events highlighted in Figure 1 below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_406\" style=\"width: 953px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-406\" class=\"size-full wp-image-406\" src=\"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Nov-Dec12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"943\" height=\"460\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1:\u00a0Snow depth and air temperature data from a representative Snotel site near Galena.Pass in the Smoky Mountains. The red highlighted areas show notable snow events, and the labels correspond to the current character of these layers from recent observations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"c10\">\u00a0The Thanksgiving snow event (labeled \u201cSoft slab\u201d in Figure 1) spanned 2-days dropping anywhere from 6-16\u201d of snow favoring the western Smoky Mountains, Galena Summit and the Sawtooths. Only a few avalanches were reported (see Image 2 below) but poor visibility during this prolonged event surely played a role. In the following two weeks, areas that harbored depth hoar near the ground have been extremely touchy and talkative. Observations from all forecast zones report poor snowpack test scores,\u00a0<a class=\"c9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/obs-pub\/observation_pro.php?id%3D3451&amp;sa=D&amp;ust=1547321342693000\">widespread cracking<\/a>and whumpfs that propagated up to\u00a0<a class=\"c9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/obs-pub\/observation_pub.php?id%3D2077&amp;sa=D&amp;ust=1547321342693000\">one-hundred feet<\/a>\u00a0and shook snow out of trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November &#8211; December 11, 2018 Snow arrived to mountain locations in early October. While servicing a weather station at 9,200\u2019 near Galena Summit on October 25th, SAC forecasters observed ~4\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallowaavalanchecenter.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}