Some of the measures taken have been taken in reaction to the slides people have already seen in the canyons. Much of it, however, is precautionary.
UDOT also has begun restricting traffic on SR 190 up Big Cottonwood Canyon, which serves the Brighton and Solitude resorts, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily due to avalanche risk. The UAC, meanwhile, has warned of “High” avalanche danger in almost all the mountains between Provo and Logan. The only exception is the Uintas, which has been reduced to “Moderate” after also spending much of the past month at “High.
“We just have a lot of uncertainty,” Staples said “It was just a record-breaking year, [then] it was cold for so long and then all of a sudden spring roared up. These are conditions where, regardless of our forecasts and the dangers — and I hope we’re conveying this in our forecasting — there’s just a lot of uncertainty. All of our forecasters are, personally, giving themselves a wider margin of error.
Staples said that up until a week ago, the threat came from “dry” avalanches. Known for the plumes of snow they send up when they slide, they’re usually triggered when so much snow piles up that the stress exceeds the strength of the snowpack and causes it to buckle. Then, within a matter of days after Utah’s last snowstorm, temperatures soared, reaching the mid-70s in the foothills Monday afternoon and near 80 on Tuesday.
The cooler temperatures predicted for later this week — including the potential for snow again Thursday — should help stabilize the snowpack, Staples said. Cold nighttime temperatures have done just that in the Uintas and in the mountains near Moab. The Moab-area mountains were actually considered at low avalanche risk Monday, but theWhat the mountains really need, though, is better plumbing.
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