Chiemgau Alps East

Little and wet snow at intermediate altitudes.

Little and wet snow at intermediate altitudes.

Avalanche danger is generally low. Main danger: wet snow. Where there is still sufficient snow, wet loose snow and glide snow avalanches trigger naturally in steep rocky terrain and on steep grass-covered slopes due to rain and moistness. The avalanches are generally small; however, isolated medium-sized avalanches cannot be excluded. In addition, fresh snowdrifts can be a problem at higher altitudes which can trigger as slab avalanches even by minimum additional loading in some places. Avalanche prone locations are found in particular in extremely steep north facing terrain ass well as in freshly wind-loaded gullies. Slab avalanches generally remain small-sized.

Up to about 1600 m strong westerly and southwesterly winds accompanied by partly significant rainfall, at higher altitude snowfall of up to 10 cm sticky snow. The old snowpack has considerably diminished due to the rain and is mostly wet down to the ground. This is associated with a loss in firmness, as a consequence snow masses can start gliding over smooth grass-covered slopes. The shallow new snow cover anticipated for Tuesday night and Wednesday during daytime will be deposited atop a thoroughly moist old snowpack surface, without wind to speak off, and will bond well.

As a consequence of cooler temperatures a bit snow will also fall at the valley floors until spring-like temperatures will set it an end by Friday. Avalanche danger levels are not expected to change significantly.