Avalanche forecast

Pre Alps

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Highlights

Beware wet and gliding snow

Avalanche problems

  • Gliding snow

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  • Wet snow

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Avalanche Activity

Beware wet and gliding snow

Due to rainfall, moist and wet-snow avalanches are possible, mostly small releases. Glide-snow avalanches still possible, can reach medium size. Avoid zones below glide cracks.

Snowpack Structure

The fresh snow is being deposited atop a moist-to-wet snowpack surface upon which Sahara dust has been deposited, which accelerates the melting process. Below 2000 m the old snowpack is thoroughly moist, wet down to the ground, this reinforces gliding over smooth ground. Very little snow on the ground below 1500 m.

Weather Forecast

Nocturnal hours: Stormy southerly winds widespread, often heavily overcast. Monday daytime: Southerly winds rapidly slackening off, shifting to westerly. Heavy showers will spread throughout the land, temperatures drop, snowfall level to below 1500 m. Precipiation will taper off in the afternoon. At 2000 m: dropping to -2 degrees. Swiftly slackening off winds, shifting to westerly.

Tendency

On Tuesday, highly variable and cool weather, brisk winds, tendency towards showers in afternoon. Avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly.

Bulletin data: Avalanche Warning Service Vorarlberg (CC BY 4.0)

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