Verwall Mountains West

Fresh snow/snowdrifts still prone to triggering. Daytime cycle of naturally triggered avalanche activity.

Fresh snow/snowdrifts still prone to triggering. Daytime cycle of naturally triggered avalanche activity.

Avalanche danger is moderate above 2200 m. With ascending altitude and in high-alpine regions, fresh snowdrift accumulations and fresh snow are prone to triggering, esp. in ridgeline terrain and in wind-loaded gullies and bowls. Easily triggerable! Danger of wet-anow avalnches has receded as temperatures dropped, but will increase again, and more loose-snow avalanches can be expected to release from the fresh fallen snow. Glide-snow avalanches are still possible, esp. in starting zones where there is sufficient snow, releases can be large. Caution below glide cracks. Huge cornices still require caution.

The most recent fresh snow has bonded well, became moistened on Thursday up to high altitudes in all aspects. A melt-freeze crust forms at night then softens rapidly in morning. Beneath the fresh snow the snowpack is thoroughly moist down to the ground below 2500 m. Danger zones for dry-snow avalanches occur esp. on steep shady slopes at high and high-alpine altitudes.

Nocturnal hours: Clear skies or scattered clouds, good outgoing radiation. Friday daytime: Sunny and very mild, thin high-altitude clouds. At 2000 m: at midday -+10 degrees. Light W/NW winds.

Due to sunny and mild conditions, danger of dry-snow avalanches will recede further. Following nights of cleaer skies, favourable conditions reign in the mornings. Due to solar radiation and warmth, danger of wet-snow avalanches rises significantly during the course of the day.