Prags Dolomites

Further increase in danger of wet and gliding avalanches in the course of the day.

Further increase in danger of wet and gliding avalanches in the course of the day.

The surface of the snowpack will cool hardly at all during the overcast night and will already be soft in the early morning. As the day progresses more frequent medium-sized and, in isolated cases, large wet and gliding avalanches are possible. This applies especially on steep sunny slopes below approximately 2800 m, as well as in all aspects at intermediate altitudes. Caution is to be exercised in particular in areas where the snow cover is rather shallow. Here the snowpack is weaker. Wet avalanches can be released, even by a single winter sport participant and reach dangerously large size.

As a consequence of mild temperatures and high relative humidity the snowpack can not consolidate during the night. The surface of the snowpack will freeze, but a strong crust will not form. This situation will give rise from the early morning to rapid and thorough wetting of the snowpack in particular on steep sunny slopes below approximately 2800 m. In areas where the snow cover is rather shallow the snowpack will soften more quickly. The small wind slabs of the weekend are now only very rarely prone to triggering. Snow depths vary greatly, depending on the infuence of the wind. In particular in the south as well as at low and intermediate altitudes only a little snow is now lying.

Hardly any decrease in danger of wet avalanches. The snowpack remains prone to triggering.