Temperature Inversion

[from_the_NEK]

Upper level warm wind too. Picture a giant hairdryer blowing across the mountaintops but leaving the cold air in the valleys. With no wind, snow can insulate itself pretty well up to 45 degrees. Once the wind starts, it is kind of the opposite of wind chill to snow. The cool layer of air just above the snow gets stripped away and the warm air can infiltrate into the loose new snowpack.

 

[bigbog]

Looks like the freezing niar(warm air aloft) is out of the picture for now up here(& over towards SL & Saddleback).
Was really fun while it lasted...uke:
Back to square one in certain areas.....

 

[skiNEwhere]

How did a temperature inversion this severe happen? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curuious

 

[C-Rex]

How did a temperature inversion this severe happen? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curuious

Must be all the SUV's driving around causing global warming.

 

[steamboat1]

 

[bigbog]

SE temps sneaking in on Monday:roll:, another round of some melt then freeze-up.. Hope it doesn't turn everything into a glacier...

 

[billski]

How did a temperature inversion this severe happen? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curuious

Usually it's when air masses collide, often when a warm front comes over a cold air mass.

 

[billski]

SE temps sneaking in on Monday....great(although I'll believe it when I feel it), another round of some melt then freeze-up..

This is garbage. I hope that cold air mass in Canada makes it over faster. We've had enough thaws for the whole season.

 

[billski]

Must be all the SUV's driving around causing global warming.

Or too much bragging on AZ

 

[ehorvitz]

Yikes