Goldberg Group Central

Rapid increase in avalanche risk as the temperature rises during the day and solar radiation increases.

Rapid increase in avalanche risk as the temperature rises during the day and solar radiation increases.

The avalanche danger increases rapidly from moderate to considerable below 2500 metres. Small and medium, damp and wet loose snow avalanches and snow slabs are to be expected in all aspects below around 2500 m during the day. Wet avalanches can also be triggered by winter sports enthusiasts. Gliding avalanches are to be expected on typical slopes. In a few places above 2200 m, snow slabs can also be triggered in persistent weak layers, especially on west-, north- and east-facing slopes, and also south-facing slopes in the high Alps. Snow slabs can reach medium size. Avalanche prone locations are difficult to recognise. Occasionally, avalanches can tear through to the floating snow close to the ground and become large.

The melt-freeze crust in the morning softens quickly during the daytime changes. Heat and moisture are increasingly penetrating the snowpack, with only shady high and high alpine locations still having dry snow on the surface. At medium altitudes, the snow cover is already very wet down to the ground. On shady slopes from around 2200 metres upwards, the old snowpack contains angular shapes and deep rime. Fractures are most likely to occur on one of the uppermost crusts, and only occasionally in the floating snow close to the ground. Some of the snow glides off the ground.

Tuesday night will be mostly clear or partly cloudy. On Tuesday, the sun will shine. Only a few spring clouds will develop during the day. At high altitudes, visibility restrictions will be possible, at least locally at times. The wind will blow moderately to briskly from the northwest. Temperatures at 2000 m will be between 0 and 7 degrees, at 3000 m around -1 degree.

Little change.