A last word of advice, escrow is a fluid state. It can be a very stressful time. As new information comes in, revisions are needed and situations come up that are out your control. Your escrow officer is there to hold all the strings together like a spider in the center of the web.
119 As the upvalley wind picks up during the day, the upslope winds are turned to a more upvalley direction. there may be a very shallow downslope flow because of the shade provided by the canopy. Downslope winds at night on densely forested slopes are affected by the presence or absence of a dense understory.
The same effect also occurs over bodies of salt water, when it is termed ocean-effect or bay-effect snow. The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic influence of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow but very intense bands of precipitation, which deposit at a rate of many inches of snow each hour, often resulting in a large amount of total snowfall.