Werdenfels Alps

Avalanche danger above the timberline is moderate, below that altitude danger is low. Snowdrifts can be triggered as slab avalanches by a single person engaged in wintersports. Avalanche prone locations are found on steep W-N-E facing slopes adjacent to and distant from ridgelines, as well as in wind-loaded gullies and bowls. Releases are mostly small-sized. Dangers of being swept away and of taking a fall require attentiveness.

Snow is transported by southerly winds. In places, trigger-sensitive fresh drifts were deposited atop a loosely packed old snowpack surface or atop snowdrifts that accumulated on the previous day. Elsewhere, snowdrifts and old snowpack surface have bonded well. In western aspects at high altitudes with shallow snow there are locally still weak layers consisting of faceted (expansively metamorphosed) crystals. Elsewhere the snowpack is mostly stable and does not contain weak layers. South-facing slopes at intermediate altitudes are becoming bare again. All in all, there is little snow on the ground.

Avalanche danger increases due to expected snowfalls.