Border Pennine Alps

Slight increase in danger of moist avalanches as a consequence of warming.

Slight increase in danger of moist avalanches as a consequence of warming.

The more recent wind slabs are mostly small. They can be released in some cases above approximately 2300 m, especially in gullies and bowls at high altitude. As a consequence of warming, the likelihood of dry and moist avalanches being released will increase a little on rocky sunny slopes. These can in isolated cases be triggered in the old snowpack and reach quite a large size.

The sometimes strong wind has transported some snow. The wind slabs have bonded with the old snowpack. In some places various wind slab layers are lying on a hard crust. Individual weak layers exist in the old snowpack. At higher altitudes snow depths vary greatly, depending on the infuence of the wind. In all regions below approximately 2000 m from a snow sport perspective, in most cases insufficient snow is lying.

The weather conditions will foster a gradual strengthening of the snow drift accumulations.