Ripe avalanche conditions for parts of B.C. expected to persist this week [Video]

A forecaster says ripe avalanche conditions are expected to persist across much of British Columbia for the rest of the week.

Large swaths of the province, stretching from the coast to the Alberta boundary, are under “considerable” or “moderate” avalanche danger warnings.

Tyson Rettie with Avalanche Canada says the conditions are largely a result of a series of storms that have lead to temperature fluctuations and significant amounts of snow at high elevation points.

“We’ve seen a pattern of a storm every 18 hours or so on the coast for over a week now,” Rettie said in an interview Tuesday.

“Every time the storm comes through, it deposits significant amounts of snow, often with strong or extreme winds.”

He said storms like these deposit wind and storm slabs, or layers of snow, on mountains.

These deposits bond together on top of existing layers of snow, Rettie said, and when the …