A low pressure trough over the CO/NM border will continue to influence regional weather but the activity will be to the north and east of us. Today, look for mostly cloudy skies, winds from the NW increasing to 20 mph along ridge tops, and high temps in the low 20's. Sunday looks to be the only sunny day of the upcoming week, with another Atmospheric River poised to deliver the next round of snow Tue-Wed.

Camp Jackson received a foot of new snow at 1.5" of Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) from yesterday's storm. Buckboard SNOTEL in lower North Creek is reporting 8" at 1.0" SWE. This is enough of a load to create dangerous avalanche conditions in most circumstances and with our weak, underlying snowpack, human triggered avalanches failing at the ground are possible. I'm uncertain as to whether this has been enough of a load to activate these buried, weak layers of sugary, faceted snow, but an avalanche breaking that deep could be un-survivable. Avoid being on or under steep slopes for the next several days until we can see how the snowpack has handled this most recent load.

NWS forecast for the Abajo Mountains.

Snow totals and temps at Buckboard Flat (8924')

Snow totals and temps at Camp Jackson (8858')