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Avalanche risk reaches 'considerable' amid record heat wave
This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. March’s heat wave is expected to persist until the weekend, and it’s creating dangerous avalanche conditions in Utah’s backcountry. The National Weather Service reports Salt Lake City fell one degree short of the record-high temperature for March on Wednesday, hitting 79 degrees. The capital city will likely ex…
UTAH- Utah's Avalanche Center issued a special warning for all mountainous regions of the state, due to dangerous avalanche conditions expected from Thursday, March 19, and extending until Sunday, March 22. According to the center, a historic heat wave in March, with record temperatures, will cause rapid destabilisation of the snow cover, significantly increasing the likelihood of widespread, spontaneous and potentially destructive wet avalanche…
Utah Avalanche Center warns of dangerous avalanche conditions as heat wave moves in
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Avalanche Center on Wednesday issued a Special Avalanche Advisory warning that a historic March heat wave is expected to rapidly increase avalanche danger across all mountain regions in Utah through the weekend. The advisory runs from Thursday, March 19, through Sunday, March 22, as forecasters anticipate record-breaking warm temperatures will quickly destabilize the existing snowpack. That warming trend is expected to …
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