Waadtländer Voralpen

A favourable avalanche situation will prevail

A favourable avalanche situation will prevail

Individual avalanche prone locations are to be found in particular on extremely steep shady slopes. Apart from the danger of being buried, restraint should be exercised in particular in view of the danger of avalanches sweeping people along and giving rise to falls.

The avalanche situation is favourable. The snow drift accumulations of recent days can still be released in isolated cases. In addition, in many places, faceted soft layers exist in the snowpack in the vicinity of the rain crust that formed at the end of December. However, these are now prone to triggering only in isolated cases. Otherwise the bonding of the snowpack is mostly favourable in the Jura, on the northern flank of the Alps and in western Lower Valais. From central Valais through northern Ticino to Grisons, in many cases the entire snowpack is faceted and interspersed with thin melt-freeze crusts. In very isolated cases, avalanches can be released in the old snow near the ground on very steep shady slopes. In the far south, an unbroken thin blanket of snow exists only on north facing slopes.

After a clear night, it was sunny during the day in the mountains. Fresh snow: - Temperature: At midday at 2000 m: between +5 °C in the west and south, and +2 °C in the east Wind: Mostly light to moderate from easterly directions After a clear night, it will be sunny during the day in the mountains. Fresh snow: - Temperature: At midday at 2000 m: about +3 °C Wind: Light to moderate from northerly directions

With clear skies at night, each of the coming days will be sunny in the mountains. The wind will be mostly moderate and, in the south and at elevated altitudes, sometimes strong from the west to northwest. The avalanche danger will not change significantly.