Cornices
- Hochgebirge
- Waldgrenze
- Unterhalb der Waldgrenze
- Wahrscheinlichkeit
- Unlikely
- Größe
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Avalanche activity remains unlikely today. Some small, isolated wet snow insatbilities like pinwheels, roller balls or wet loose sluffs may form on all aspects today due to daytime warming and the increase in cloud cover. The clouds will act as an insulating blanket that will prevent the snowpack from cooling itself with radiational cooling and allow today's warmth spread to northerly aspects. If some rain does actually fall on the snowpack, wet snow instabilities may become more widespread.
Some small, isolated areas of potentially unstable wind slabs that may still linger in near and above treeline terrain represent the other unlikely and mostly benign issue. In the few areas where these slabs might remain, they should also have become difficult to trigger. In the unlikely event that a person did find a human-triggereable wind slab, it should not invovle enough snow to do much more than knock a person down or push a person off his/her intended course. In most areas this issue would represent more an inconvinence than an actual problem unless it occurs in areas that magnify the consequences of any size avalanche or where any stumble or fall can have serious consequences. These kind of places include steep couliors, slopes above cliffs, and other complex or extreme terrain.