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The Utah Avalanche Center has raised the risk rating for mountain snow slides to "moderate" in extreme northern and northeastern Utah.
In the Logan district the avalanche risk rose due to warmer temperatures and loose and wet conditions of snow on southeast and southwest facing slopes.
Risks of slides are also elevated for the western Uintas, where similar snow conditions prevail -- along strong winds and up to 8 inches of new snowfall. Those factors have combined to create unstable slabs of snow on upper and mid elevation lee slopes.
Avalanche danger for the state's other monitoring districts --Ogden, Salt Lake City, Provo and Manti-Skyline -- were rated as "low" for Thursday.
