{"blocks":[{"key":"dv31","text":"About 15 cm of new snow (over a two day period) is expected to accumulate in the region by the end of the day on Monday. This will feed into existing wind slab problems brought on by powerful east and northeast winds that have been redistributing loose snow into reactive wind slabs. Winds have been circling the compass as we wait for a forecast shift to the southwest, expanding problems to all aspects.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"cmq3e","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"a8il8","text":"Forecast snow will otherwise add to around 15 cm of older low density snow in shaded, sheltered areas and to more widespread wind-affected snow. This previous surface snow has been transforming into weak, faceted grains under recent cold temperatures. On solar aspects, a thin recent sun crust may be found near the new snow interface or beneath recently wind transported snow. Both of these interface types are contributing to the reactivity of new wind slabs.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"7o6te","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"frisf","text":"Below the evolving surface, 50-100 cm of settled storm snow sits on a persistent weak layer from late January that consists of facets at upper elevations, surface hoar in sheltered areas, a melt-freeze crust below 1900 m, and a sun crust on south-facing slopes. There could be more than 100 cm on this layer in wind loaded areas. Although this structure is suspect, we have no recent reports of avalanches failing at this interface within the region.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[{"offset":127,"length":6,"key":0},{"offset":155,"length":12,"key":1}],"data":{}},{"key":"4a6li","text":"","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}},{"key":"7h7b0","text":"A crust from early December, currently considered dormant, may be found around 200+ cm deep in the snowpack.","type":"unstyled","depth":0,"inlineStyleRanges":[],"entityRanges":[],"data":{}}],"entityMap":{"0":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary?q=crust#faceted-snow"}},"1":{"type":"LINK","mutability":"MUTABLE","data":{"url":"https://www.avalanche.ca/glossary?q=persistent+weak+layer#surface-hoar"}}}}