Vicentine Prealps

Fresh wind slabs are to be evaluated with care and prudence. Moist loose snow avalanches require caution.

Fresh wind slabs are to be evaluated with care and prudence. Moist loose snow avalanches require caution.

High altitudes and the high Alpine regions: The fresh wind slabs are in isolated cases prone to triggering in all aspects. As a consequence of warming during the day and solar radiation more frequent loose snow avalanches are to be expected, especially in steep rocky terrain in all aspects. Wet and gliding avalanches are possible. In very isolated cases avalanches can release the saturated snowpack and reach a dangerous size. Apart from the danger of being buried, restraint should be exercised as well in view of the danger of avalanches sweeping people along and giving rise to falls.

Above approximately 2500 m: In some localities 10 to 30 cm of snow, and even more in some localities, has fallen. As a consequence of a sometimes strong wind from variable directions, wind slabs formed in particular in gullies and bowls and behind abrupt changes in the terrain. High altitudes: The weather conditions will give rise to increasing and thorough wetting of the snowpack.