Crested Butte Avalanche Center

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Reported Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 6:45 AM

	Weather Forecast Today: Becoming partly cloudy, light winds and warm temperatures Tonight: Mostly clear, light winds and cool Tomorrow: Clear, calm and warm

This is only a brief report because the CBAC is officially closed for the season.
After a hard hit of wind the last 2 days and heavy snow we can expect a turn around in the trend today. Warm temperatures and clear skies are beginning to move in today and last through the weekend. Spring will be back with a vengeance.

Heavy snow in the high country may have created large deep wind slabs that may be very unstable. Even lower exposed slopes became affected by the winds. Deep slab instability should only be present where the snowpack was previously shallow.

Considerable near and above treeline on NW-E-SE MOderate everywhere else

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Alan