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Spring snowstorms, sudden warming pose dangers
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Avalanches: Why they occur
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This season there have been two avalanche-related deaths.
Marshall Higgins became trapped on New Year's Eve while snowshoeing the Primrose Cirque area at Mount Timpanogos. Higgins is still buried under snow due to dangerous recovery conditions.
Earlier this month, the body of snowboarder Ryan Smedley, 34, was found in Taylor's Canyon near Ogden's Snowbasin Ski Resort.
Now that it is spring, predicting avalanche dangers depends entirely on watching weather patterns, according to Hardesty. If there's no change in the weather, chances are the danger level stays low.
"Right now it sort of spikes like an EKG monitor," Hardesty said of Utah's recent weather and related avalanche danger.
A new storm was expected to blanket the entire state beginning last night and lasting through today, according to Chris Gibson, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City.
Snow is expected above 5,000 feet, with rain hitting the valleys. Gibson's office issued a heavy snow warning for central and southwestern Utah, predicting 12 inches in 12 hours or at least 18 inches of snow within 24 hours in higher mountain areas.
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