{"blocks":[{"key":"12aj9","text":"Steady snowfall over the weekend will bring storm totals of 30 cm Saturday, 50 to 70 cm Sunday, reaching 70 to 100 cm by Monday. The initially light, fluffy snow will be buried by incrementally warmer, denser snow towards the end of the storm. As the snow piles up, it is being blown around by strong southerly winds. At alpine and treeline elevations, fat pockets of wind loaded snow are expected in lee features such as below ridgecrests and roll-overs.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"3v4ut","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"dlpsv","text":"The new snow is falling on extensively wind affected and faceted surfaces at all elevations. Typically, the longer a snow surface sits exposed before being buried, the less eager it is to bond to new snow. After the clear skies, frigid temperatures and extreme outflows last week, we suspect that there will be plenty of avalanche activity through the storm at the new snow interface.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":57,"length":7,"key":0}],"data":{}},{"key":"di6id","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"cftt1","text":"A deep crust from mid November lurks at the base of the snowpack. A couple of recent large avalanches have run on this layer on lee and cross-loaded features high in the alpine. As this storm applies significant new snow loads to the snowpack, these deep layers will feel the stress and we may see some very large avalanches in high places.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":7,"length":5,"key":1}],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#faceted-snow"}},"1":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary#crusts-are-hard-layers-of-snow-usually-created-by-liquid"}}}}