Pre Alps

Loose-snow slides and small glide-snow avalanches

Nocturnal hours: Slightly cloudy to cloudless, cold. Friday daytime: Predominantaly sunny. Intensifying SW winds can disturb. At 2000 m: -4 to +1 degrees. Brisk SW winds in foehn zones and high-alpine regions.

Saturday will be mostly sunny, despite some clouds. In high alpine regions and foehn-impacted zones, strong SW winds will be blowing, this will lead to snow transport and generation of new drifts. Avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly.

Loose-snow slides and small glide-snow avalanches

Due to mild temperatures and solar radiation, moist slides and small loose-snow avalanches are possible in very steep terrain. In addition, where snowfall has been heaviest, mostly small, in isolated cases medium-sized glide-snow avalanches are possible on steep grass-covered slopes, in forest clearances and on hillsides. Caution below glide cracks, Small snowdrifts and loose-snow slides can be triggered by 1 person in steep terrain. Consider the risks of being swept along and forced to take a fall!

The latest round of fresh snow lies deposited atop a largely wet snowpack, it is well bonded with the old snowpack. In ridgeline terran and above the treeline, small snowdrift accumulations have been generated. Warm ground and the wet snowpack base reinforce the gliding movements of the entire snowpack. At low altitudes the snowfall was deposted on bare ground.