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Caution urged towards wet snow and weak layers in old snow.

Caution urged towards wet snow and weak layers in old snow.

Small wet loose-snow avalanches are possible, esp. on steep slopes. In addition, isolateed small-to-medium wet slab avalanches are possible at the foot of rock walls, esp. during the afternoon hours, in starting zones which have not yet discharged. Weak layers in the old snowpack can in isolated cases be triggered by one sole skier. Such danger zones occur on very steep shady slopes and in transitions into gullies and bowls above 1900m, and can reach medium size. Due to fresh fallen snow and moderate-velocity southerly winds, mostly small snowdrift accumulations were generated in ridgeline terrain, often triggerable by minimum additional loading.

Up to 20cm of fresh snow was registered at 2000m, above 2000m 5-10 cm still expected. Below 2000m: widespread rainfall. Nocturnal outgoing longwave radiation is intermittently reduced. The snowpack is moist. The snowpack will soften increasingly during the course of the day. In the middle part of the snowpack on N/W/E facing slopes there are faceted, expansively metamorphosed weak layers evident.

Lightly cloudy in early morning, some sunshine, then convective cloud build-up during the course of the day. Isolated thunderstorms are possible. Winds will be mostly light. At 1000m: +11 degrees; at 2000m: 0 degrees. Source: GeoSphere

Slightly rising avalanche danger at high altitudes