Chiemgau Alps East

Snowdrifts up in the mountains; potentially also glide snow or wet loose snow avalanches

Snowdrifts up in the mountains; potentially also glide snow or wet loose snow avalanches

The main problem: snowdrifts that are triggerable above approximately 1600m in all aspects in particular by large additional loading. Avalanche prone locations are located in wind-loaded gullies and bowls and behind protuberances, both close to and distant from ridgelines, and tend to increase in frequency and size with ascending altitude. They attain medium size. At high altitude they can here and there also grow to large size where more deeply embedded layers are triggered. Superficial, mostly small wet snow avalanches can be expected to trigger in extremely steep terrain in all aspects at lower altitudes up to intermediate altitudes due to warming. In addition, small to medium-sized glide snow avalanches can release spontaneously on steep grass-covered slopes and in forest clearances at all altitudes and in all aspects. Glide cracks are alarm signals.

Monday will see marked warming and rain coming from the west. The snowfall level will rise up to high intermediate altitude from west to east during the course of the day. The snowpack surface becomes increasingly moist.In particular in the eastern regions there will be slight snowfall on Sunday night. The packed snowdrift masses of recent days are bonding more and more. In places, there are still trigger-prone layers in places above approximately 1600m adjacent to crusts and at the snowpack base at high altitudes. On grass covered slopes and forests the snowpack is frequently moist to wet at the ground.

The danger of wet loose snow avalanches will rise with increasing warming.