Lechtal Alps East

Wind slabs and wet snow require caution.

Wind slabs and wet snow require caution.

The danger of wet avalanches will increase during the day. Wet avalanches can in very isolated cases be released by a single winter sport participant. The avalanche prone locations are to be found especially on very steep west, north and east facing slopes below approximately 2600 m. In the afternoon the activity of wet avalanches will increase. In the event of rain this applies in particular. Mostly avalanches are only small. The Avalanche Warning Service currently has only a small amount of information that has been collected in the field, so that the avalanche danger should be investigated especially thoroughly in the relevant locality.

The weather conditions fostered a rapid stabilisation of the snow drift accumulations. In some localities an overcast night. The surface of the snowpack has frozen to form a strong crust and will soften during the day. The old snowpack is wet. Up to high altitudes rain will fall in the afternoon in some localities.

The surface of the snowpack will cool hardly at all during the overcast night. The danger of wet avalanches will already exist in the early morning. Mostly avalanches are only small.