Allgäu Alps West

Assess with caution freshly generated snowdrifts in steep terrain

Assess with caution freshly generated snowdrifts in steep terrain

Predominantly favorable conditions prevail, with low avalanche danger. Freshly generated snowdrift accumulations can be triggered as small slab avalanches. Danger zones occur at high altitudes esp. on shady ridgeline steep slopes, they can be blanketed by fresh snowfall and difficult to recognize. Caution: even small avalanches or slides can force one to take a fall. Particularly with solar radiation, mostly small loose-snow avalanches can trigger in extremely steep terrain.

Fresh fallen snow of recent days has led to transported snow by the often strong-velocity winds, thin snowdrifts have been deposited esp. on steep shady slopes at high altitudes atop soft layers. Bonding to the old snowpack surface is poor, and deteriorates with ascending altitude. On sunny slopes and at lower altitudes, bonding to the moist old snowpack surface is generally good. The below-average snowpack is generally well consolidated. As temperatures drop, gliding snow activity has receded significantly.

With a high-low pressure front, variably cloudy weather will soon take over. Moderate to brisk winds. Summits sometimes shrouded in fog, a few snowflakes falling are possible but without much snow accumulating. At 2000m: -4 degrees. Moderate NE winds at high altitude.

Predominantly favorable conditions