Observation: Turnagain

Location: Road obs.

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Weather & Snow Characteristics
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Weather

A warm, spring day in advance of a warm, spring storm!  Clouds rolling in from the south and east during the early evening hours but no precip as of 6PM.

Temperatures at 5PM:
Girdwood (sea level): 49 degrees
Turnagain pass (1,000 feet): 46 degrees
Center ridge (1880 feet): 43 degrees
Sunburst (3800 feet): 30 degrees

Observed moderate easterly winds actively transporting snow on some of the higher peaks in the Turnagain pass area > 4,000 feet).

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