Allgäu Alps West

Increasingly frequent glide-snow avalanches, otherwise favorable conditions

Increasingly frequent glide-snow avalanches, otherwise favorable conditions

Danger of small (where snowfall has been heavy also medium-sized) glide-snow avalanches on steep grass-covered slopes or rocky plates remains difficult to asses. Caution urged below glide cracks. Otherwise avalanche dange ris low. Isolated triggerings by winter sports enthusiasts in extremely steep terrain are possible. The danger of being swept along and forced to take a fall outweighs that of being buried in snow masses.

The below-average snowpack is well consolidated by and large. In high altitude pass and ridgeline zones, small fresh, often trigger-sensitive snowdrift accumulations require attentiveness. Esp. on steep shady slopes these drifts have been deposited atop loose snow and are prone to triggering. High-altitude shady slopes are often still powdery, elsewhere the snowpack is often with breakable crusts, sometimes wind crusts are capable of bearing loads. On sunny slopes, a melt-freeze crust. During the daytime hours, this crust softens up again. In recent days increasingly frequent fresh glide cracks and glide-snow avalanches have been reported.

Nocturnal skies will be partly cloudy, but dry. On Sunday the mountains will often be shrouded in fog, but it will remain dry. Between Rätikon and Silvretta, pleasant conditions with intermittent sunshine. In the afternoon, cloudy also in southern regions. At 2000m: +1 degree. Light winds from varying directions at high altitudes.

Avalanche danger levels not expected to change significantly