eastern washington ice this weekend?

[counterfeitfake]

All right icemen. As I am a noob, I could use some guidance.

 

Assuming this weather forecast is more or less correct (warmer weather with rain during the week, overnight lows dipping into freezing, followed by a much colder Friday night and Saturday), can we expect eastern Washington ice to be in?

[Alpinfox]

I'd say no.

 

Highs of 11 deg > freezing and lows of 2-3 deg < freezing are not going to be kind to existing ice and won't result in new ice formation.

 

However, the good news is that I predict good ice conditions next week. This week will be warm and wet, and starting this weekend it will be cold (highs of 31 lows of 20). The moisture should feed some of those anemic climbs that weren't quite "in" this past weekend, and then the cold temps will freeze stuff up.

 

My advice is that you "otter" work this weekend and take Wed/Thr off for ice.

[Jens]

I think I'm gonna head over to the desert to rock climb this weekend but through the tools and crampons in just in the off chance something survived this warmth.

 

Way above freezing over their today.

and +7C at lillooet