{"blocks":[{"key":"endnn","text":"Let's first consider the recent snow:  Until Wednesday it was warm and coast-like meaning it was settling quickly, trying to stick and bond, and hard to blow around. Since yesterday (Thursday) with cooler temperatures the new snow was colder (cooler temps), drier, slower to settle, and easier to blow around. In summary the storm snow / upper snowpack is right-side-up.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"5bub8","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"1i8id","text":"Second let's think about the wind:  It's repeatedly backed and veered during the storm which is tech-speak for switched directions several times. Starting Thursday the strength ramped up (coinciding with the dry snow), there was intense drifting, and rapid wind slab development. Given the strength and shifty wind character I suspect wind slabs will be in both typical and non-typical locations.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"540d6","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"dtt6n","text":"Snow depths at White Pass increased from around 100cm to 160 cm during the past week in our wind protected study plot. Deeper locations (higher terrain west of the highway) have as much as 200 cm. It's reasonable to expect a thin snowpack composed mainly of sugary facets in the Wheaton Valley, and thinner wind-scoured alpine areas.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"f8nfs","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"acana","text":"Here's a non-technical snowprofile from the Fraser study plot.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":0,"length":34,"key":0}],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/map?panel=mountain-information-network-submissions/1e152819-6246-4a89-8c27-a48eb7181dad"}}}}