Pre Alps

Low avalanche danger, wet slides and glide-snow avalanches

Low avalanche danger, wet slides and glide-snow avalanches

Avalanche danger is low. Moist slides and small-to-medium glide-snow avalanches can trigger on steep grass-covered slopes, in forest clearances and hillsides which have not yet discharged. Caution below glide cracks. In extremely steep terrain, isolated small avalanches can be triggered. Beware the risks of taking a fall. In high-altitude ridgeline terrain the fresh drifts are prone to triggering.

The old snowpack is generally weakened by rain impact, and wet down to the ground up to high altitudes. Where there is rain impact, loss of firmness, on steep shady slopes at high altitudes there are still snowdrift accumulations. Snow depths have deteriorated. Low altitude slopes are bare of snow.

Nocturnal hours: Scattered clouds to cloudless. Wednesday daytime: Tranquil and very mild weather, mostly sunsihne, plus degrees to nearely 3000 m. At 2000 m0 to 7 degrees. Light westerly winds.

On Thursday, rainfall, snowfall above 1900 m in Rätikon and Silvretta, often hefty with brisk W/NW winds Danger of dry-snow avalanches will rise somewhat. Danger of wet-snow avalanches will rise in places where there is rain impact. Glide-snow avalanches can still be expected.